Pan-American Health Organization
- Since 1991, PAHO has led a region-wide effort to control Chagas disease in the southern cone of South America. PAHO has coordinated the cooperation of the seven countries through annual PAHO-sponsored meetings. The incidence of the disease has decreased by 94% in the seven countries, and disease transmission has been halted in Uruguay, Chile, and large parts of Brazil and Paraguay.
- PAHO provided support to Jamaica’s National Salt Flouridation Program. The program, regarded as a model for micronutrient interventions, helped decrease dental caries in school children by as much as 87 percent between 1987 and 1995.