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Jaime Zamora. Quality Officer of the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative In 2013, only 30 percent of newborn children in Belize received quality medical care. Four years later, in 2017, this figure rose to 89 percent.  Improvement of quality in health services has benefitted not only the newborns,…

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Colombia. March 14 2019 Eliminating malaria in Colombia would allow to annually save a mean of 19 persons and stop between 50,000 and 80,000 persons contracting this disease. With this goal, the Ministry of Health of Colombia, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Governor of Chocó,…

El Salvador. February 20th 2019 The technical partners incorporated the malaria foci management focus proposed by PAHO, counting with a single foci approach for all the countries. They agreed on communications action plans in each country.

Paraguay has eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to do so in almost 50 years, according to the World Health Organization.

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Emma Iriarte, Executive Secretary Salud Mesoamerica Initaitive Adela lives in a small village in the Copan region. She had five children and in 2016 she became pregnant with her sixth child.

Results of the measurement of results of the Salud Mesoamérica Initiative show progress in access to health of the poorest 20 percent of the country’s population. As result of this, the Public Health Secretariat will receive 1.7 million Dollars for meeting the initiative’s goals.

Deaths due to malaria have been reduced in Central America by 90% in 15 years. The goal for 2020 is that the number becomes zero EMMA IRIARTE