During the 2024–2025 biennium, PAHO made a decisive contribution to improving access to medicines in Paraguay through the modernization of the regulatory framework for price setting. Substantial reductions were recorded in the prices of numerous medicines for the public system during 2024–2025 in comparison with previous periods, and an institutional mechanism for continuous monitoring of the pharmaceutical market was consolidated. 

With strategic support from PAHO, Paraguay consolidated a territorial model of intercultural care oriented toward Indigenous communities, dispersed rural populations, and border populations.  

During the 2024–2025 biennium, PAHO supported the consolidation of a territorial model for local health and social inclusion through the healthy municipalities strategy, the Healthy Municipalities, Cities and Communities Movement, and the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Technical cooperation guided the planning, implementation, and monitoring of intersectoral actions at the municipal level, strengthening local capacities and integrating health for all, healthy aging, and human rights approaches. 

During the 2024–2025 biennium, PAHO made a strategic contribution to advancing Paraguay’s efforts toward the elimination of cervical cancer, in alignment with the 90–70–90 targets of the global strategy. PAHO’s technical cooperation was key to strengthening organized screening through the implementation of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as the primary screening technology in 16 of the country’s 17 departments, including the capital, accompanied by systematic training processes for health personnel in sample collection, clinical management, and timely referral. This technological shift enabled the expansion of screening coverage to near-universal levels, increasing the early detection of precancerous lesions using more sensitive and cost-effective methods.

During the 2024–2025 biennium, Paraguay made critical progress in strengthening emergency care related to road traffic injuries, in line with the objectives under pillar 5 (“Effective post-crash response”)  of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030.