As part of its second round of funding, released on 18 October 2024, the Pandemic Fund (PF) has approved five new projects for Latin America and the Caribbean, aimed at improving countries’ preparedness for future pandemics.
Projects selected by the multilateral financing mechanism will benefit ten countries across the region (Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and six Eastern Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines). The grants, which total 84.1 million US dollars, will be used to enhance disease surveillance and early warning systems, improve laboratories, and develop the health workforce, among other key activities.
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