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  1. Communicable Diseases - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health …

    Dec 9, 2025 · The Pan American Health Organization prioritizes disease prevention, vaccine coverage expansion and consolidation, access to treatment, an end to communicable disease epidemics, and, …

  2. Mar 21, 2025 · Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), cancer, chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), and diabetes, are the leading causes of death and disability in …

  3. Communicable Disease Prevention, Control, and Elimination

    Apr 17, 2013 · About Us Communicable Disease Prevention, Control, and Elimination promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities directed toward the surveillance, …

  4. Elimination Initiative Committed to eliminating 30+ communicable ...

    Apr 22, 2025 · The Pan American Health Organization´s initiative to eliminate communicable diseases, known as the Elimination Initiative (EI), aims to eradicate more than 30 communicable diseases and …

  5. Diseases Elimination Initiative - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health ...

    What diseases and conditions can be eradicated? The Elimination Initiative involves a wide range of communicable diseases, including: a. Diseases preventable by vaccination.

  6. Noncommunicable Diseases - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health …

    Nov 25, 2025 · Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the number one cause of death and disability in the world. The term NCDs refers to a group of conditions that are not mainly caused by …

  7. Almost all of the other 16 goals are directly related to health or will contribute to health indirectly. By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention …

  8. Despite an overall decrease in premature mortality in the Americas ...

    Brasilia, March 26, 2025 (PAHO) - While premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, has dropped in the Americas over the past decade, …

  9. Regional Data Portal: PAHO's Initiative to Eliminate Communicable ...

    Welcome to the Elimination Initiative (EI) Regional Data Portal, your gateway to up-to-date insights and comprehensive data on the progress toward eliminating over 30 communicable diseases and related …

  10. The burden of noncommunicable diseases - PAHO

    Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of death and disease burden in the Region of the Americas. In 2021, NCDs accounted for 6.0 million deaths or 65% of total deaths, equivalent to …