Program against smallpox in the Americas

Proposed Program and Budget of the Pan American Health Organization for 1966 to be submitted. to the 52nd Meeting of the Executive Committee and the XVI Meeting of the

i) August 1960, XII Meeting of the PAHO Directing Council, XII Meeting of the WHO Regional Committee,. La Havana, Cuba. Resolution XVII urged Governments of countries

As the result of an'eradication campaign begun in October 1950, which covered 87 per cent of the country's population, no case of smallpox has occurred in Peru since

Proposed Program and Budget of the World Health Organization for the Region of the Americas and Provisional Draft of the. Proposed Program and Budget of the Pan American

To consolidate the results achieved, the production of dried vaccine was increased (the Organization provided the necessary equipment), and also the incorporation of the

be another of the functions of the Government of Mexico. As the result of this measure, the possibility of eradicating smallpox became a reality, and the efforts of the people

The XV Pan American Sanitary Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1958), after adetailed study of the problem of smallpox in the Western Hemisphere, declared, in Resolution VI,

To instruct the Director to present to the X Meeting of the Directing Council the Proposed Program and Budget of the Pan American Sanitary Organization for the year 1958, as