Americas Health Foundation

Vacunas Sin Fronteras

The AHF launched a new platform, Vacunas Sin Fronteras, to support and promote vaccine use and influence development of national immunization policies. AHF raise vaccine awareness by developing education campaigns and promoting open dialogues on vaccines and vaccine policy.
Recent Initiatives:

24 hours. Together Against Meningococcal Disease is an educational initiative that seeks to inform and bring resources to involve the entire community to help prevent meningococcal meningitis, a devastating, life-threatening and disabling illness that can trigger severe consequences, in just 24 hours, after onset of symptoms.

Latin America without Pertussis is an educational initiative implemented by AHF to address the increasing incidence of pertussis in Latin America by generating awareness about the disease and prevention policies which contribute to the goal that no child dies from pertussis in the region.

Polio Vaccine Task Force in Latin America: AHF and SLIPE convened a task force of experts in the field to help promote awareness and advance medical knowledge of this disease entity.

Break Dengue Latin America

Americas Health Foundation is part of the global platform Break Dengue.  This platform aims to build a global coalition that connects all Dengue initiatives and seeks to emulate new ones to reduce and ultimately control Dengue. Through our joint efforts, we will contribute to ending the suffering that causes dengue worldwide. AHF manages this platform in Latin America and our objectives are:

• Expand the global platform Break Dengue, an initiative supported by the pharmaceutical industry, R&D, non-governmental organizations, and associations, into Latin America.
• Build a solid network of community-based third parties to advocate for vaccination against dengue.
• Raise awareness about dengue.

About The Foundation

There is the need for a Foundation in the Americas to join together efforts by different actors in the health sector to combine forces with the Ministries of Health to support health activities to improve the public health in the region. At this time it is difficult for governments to partner with the private sector directly due to potential conflict of interest. A Foundation will become a more natural partner to governments and will allow for the grouping of various private sector entities to dispel the idea of conflict of interest.