With technical support from PAHO, Colombia made considerable progress in implementing the national plan for eliminating and sustaining the elimination of communicable diseases and priority conditions 2025-2031, validated with academia and scientific societies, and aligned with PAHO's Disease Elimination Initiative. Technical cooperation strengthened the governance of the plan, incorporated accelerator interventions, and promoted the systematic use of evidence for decision-making. As a result, the country consolidated its position as a regional leader on the path toward achieving elimination targets by 2030.
In addition, Colombia maintained its status as a country free of measles, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, and poliomyelitis, meeting surveillance and vaccination coverage indicators. It increased national vaccination coverage for MMR1 from 88.5% to 90.3% between 2022 and 2025, while coverage for MMR2 remained stable at 85.6% over the same period.
These advances reflect more robust surveillance systems, greater response capacity, and strengthened institutional capacity, contributing to reductions in morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases and to the sustained protection of public health.