This outcome addresses the elimination of targeted diseases, including selected neglected diseases and zoonoses. Efforts will concentrate on eliminating diseases as public health problems and on eliminating transmission and/or maintaining the elimination status of selected diseases of public health importance. Interventions for elimination will address social and environmental determinants as well as equity and human rights as barriers to access. Emphasis will be on:

a) Increasing access to interventions that target the elimination of neglected diseases as public health problems, as defined in Document CD55/15 (2016).

b) Increasing access to interventions that target the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis.

c) Increasing access to interventions that target the elimination of local malaria transmission within and between Member States and the prevention of the spread, reintroduction, and reestablishment of the disease, as defined in Document CD55/13 (2016).

d) Increasing access to interventions to eliminate, prevent, rapidly detect, and respond to the reintroduction and reestablishment of foot-and-mouth disease.

e) Maintaining the elimination of selected vaccine-preventable diseases.

Note: For further details on the scope of this Outcome, please refer to the PAHO Strategic Plan 20-25 Document.