Mectizan Donation Program

PAHO-WHO Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa and Carter Center VP Dr. Kashef Ijaz signed an agreement today at the World Health Assembly in Geneva to enhance regional collaboration on our mutual river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria elimination efforts in the Americas. The agreement builds on three decades of working together with ministries of health in the Americas. We look forward to deepening our partnership in the next chapter!