Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), founded in 1902, is the world’s oldest international public health agency. It provides technical cooperation and mobilizes partnerships to improve health and quality of life in the countries of the Americas. PAHO is the specialized health agency of the Inter-American System and serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO). Together with WHO, PAHO is a member of the United Nations system. La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), fundada en 1902, es la agencia de salud pública internacional más antigua del mundo. Brinda cooperación técnica y moviliza asociaciones para mejorar la salud y la calidad de vida en los países de las Américas. La OPS es el organismo especializado en salud del Sistema Interamericano y actúa como Oficina Regional para las Américas de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Junto con la OMS, la OPS es miembro del sistema de las Naciones Unidas.www.paho.org
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Sep 19, 2026
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
In 1965, the World Health Organization established a dedicated smallpox eradication unit, and that same year, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the United States would start supporting the global smallpox eradication program.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Soon, the US was supporting the work of the Pan-American Health Organization in South America, and also funding major vaccine efforts in Western and Central Africa.
Holly FreyHOST
These years also saw improvements in how smallpox vaccines were administered.
Holly FreyHOST
Most vaccines that people receive today are administered as shots.
Alex MercerHOST
The required corrections are the concrete next step.
Alex MercerHOST
On access, Gilead and the Pan American Health Organization announced a regional procurement pathway for twice yearly lenacapavir to prevent HIV.
Alex MercerHOST
The agreement uses PAHO's regional revolving funds to support country-led adoption across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Alex MercerHOST
It adds a route for fourteen countries outside Gilead's voluntary licensing agreements.
Maya PatelHOST
Those countries need a different route from the generic access arrangements already in place elsewhere.
Maya PatelHOST
It doesn't mean doses are already reaching everyone who could benefit.
Maya PatelHOST
Price and rollout timing were not disclosed, and each country's implementation still matters.
Alex MercerHOST
Gilead and PAHO have created a procurement mechanism for a long-acting prevention option with the practical terms of delivery still to come.
Yvonne MaldonadoPANELIST
So I am on the National Certifying Committee to look at measles elimination status.
Yvonne MaldonadoPANELIST
We are reporting our data and findings to PAHO later this year, and then PAHO will make a final decision about what happens in the United States.
Carlos Del RioMODERATOR
Yeah.
Carlos Del RioMODERATOR
No, it's very unfortunate, and I don't know what the outcome is going to be, but I fear what the outcome is going to be, and it's going to be very disappointed.
Keisha BlidenHOST
In the Americas and Caribbean, suicide is a major public health issue.
Keisha BlidenHOST
In 2021, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago had the highest AIDS-standardized suicide mortality rates in the Americas, according to the Pan-American Health Organization data.
Keisha BlidenHOST
CARICOM says these statistics show that suicide prevention must go beyond health.
Keisha BlidenHOST
Parents, communities, schools, workplaces, faith-based organizations, civil society, and governments must come together to help people feel valued, connected, and able to seek help without shame.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
So...
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
What impact then for the United States is there from us deciding not to fund PAHO anymore or contribute to PAHO anymore? Is it going to delay our getting information? And how long do we think it would take for this to travel from that country all the way up to the United States? It's hard to say.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
I wonder what impact geography has and climate.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
Will it stop in the mountains? Does it need water?
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
This is not the same thing as fund WHO or fund anything.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
What I found myself thinking was, whether you agree or disagree with this administration's determinations about how to manage disease, I did think that that recommendation still holds.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
If you've decided you don't want to support WHO and PAHO and whatever else, if you've decided that, There's no protection, right? There's still no protection.
Asha M. GeorgeHOST
That virus is going to move.
Jesse GoodmanGUEST
I think the measles elimination status, first of all, for the audience that may be interested in this, it's really a formal global public health designation.
Jesse GoodmanGUEST
Or in the case of the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization looks at the disease occurrence and says, is the measles virus normal? circulating within the country rather than just being introduced from other countries with little sporadic outbreaks? But is it circulating and being acquired over the course of a year in the country? And if so, that country would lose its measles elimination status.
Jesse GoodmanGUEST
I actually should know, but I think we've had that status for more than 20 years or so.
Jesse GoodmanGUEST
The The real meaning is that we have measles circulating here and we're going to have a lot of kids sick and some die like we're seeing now.
Thaíssa AvilaHOST
It goes with what you were saying about the journal growing and the expected natural growth, and I think that over the years we ha- we, we built our relationships across multiple stakeholders, and we started getting a seat on some high-level conversations.
Thaíssa AvilaHOST
We have now close interactions with PAHO.
Thaíssa AvilaHOST
We sit on some decision-making tables that I find fascinating because that's, for me, when we can see the science and the, the results traveling from on the manuscript to being discussed and potential implementations.
Thaíssa AvilaHOST
So I find it really interesting that we're getting to see our papers moving towards this, and this whole ecosystem that the journal is part of that is building the evidence and helping and advocating for the decisions to be made based on that evidence.
Onika MokoiCORRESPONDENT
The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Nutrition, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, is taking steps to strengthen the quality of mental health services and promote the protection of human rights for people accessing care across Saint Lucia.
Onika MokoiCORRESPONDENT
A four-day World Health Organization Quality Rights Training workshop brought together key stakeholders under the theme Improving Quality and Human Rights in Mental Health Facilities.
Onika MokoiCORRESPONDENT
The workshop forms part of efforts to build greater awareness of the importance of providing mental health services that are not only accessible and effective but also respectful of the dignity, rights, and individual needs of every person.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am confident that you'll find this training both interesting and rewarding, just as many of us did when we participated in the first phase of the Quality Rights Training in October 2025.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I believe that this workshop will provide another valuable opportunity to deepen our knowledge and strengthen our capacity to promote and protect the rights of persons with mental health conditions.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Nutrition greatly appreciates the support of the Pan American Health Organization in facilitating this important activity.
Onika MokoiCORRESPONDENT
As Saint Lucia continues to strengthen its mental health services, initiatives such as the World Health Organization Quality Rights Training workshop are important in promoting a system where quality care and human rights go hand in hand.
Onika MokoiCORRESPONDENT
From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Nutrition, I am Onica McCoy.
SamanthaHOST
In 2002, I completed my gender-affirming surgery while authoring articles about the totalitarian regime gaining power in Venezuela and joining the United Nations Committee of Human Rights.
SamanthaHOST
So she worked with organizations such as the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association, Pan American Health Organization, and has been a special advisor on human rights for the World Health Organization.
SamanthaHOST
And in 2005, she was able to go to the Council of Human Rights and speak about and for trans people.
SamanthaHOST
So this is from StanfordDaily.com. She said, It took one year.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
Today, a campaign to reduce unnecessary infant deaths from overwhelming infection in the Americas.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
Dr. Pablo Duran is a regional advisor in perinatal health for the Pan American Health Organization.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
He speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what's needed to reduce a toll that claims the life of two babies every minute worldwide and one every hour in the region.
Lindsay Smith RogersHOST
Let's listen.
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Pablo DuranGUEST
Available, the availability of laboratory is not available, and this makes a real problem for the safety of the babies.
Josh SharfsteinHOST
One of the things I remember from my time in Ecuador was that there were so many preventable deaths.
Josh SharfsteinHOST
And it sounds like the Pan American Health Organization is focused on that.
Josh SharfsteinHOST
And you believe that if these steps can be followed, a lot of these preventable deaths won't happen.
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