Success of this multilateral approach will require budgetary support. However, we should go beyond that and have a global health forum or council in which those agencies and institutions active or becoming increasingly active in health join with WHO in determining how to coordinate the various efforts. I would include in this forum representation from the multilateral financial institutions, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations. Different spheres of interest and action would complement each other, which should help correct the current ad hoc theme-driven approach that continues to draw criticism. PAHO has emphasized the benefit of a collective approach, and Panamericanism is one of the major underlying principles of the organization's work.
Vaccines are one of the technologies emphasized.
In conclusion, we must promote the individual study of the nature and local means of control of emerging diseases. The public must be engaged on a more regular basis to consider the truism that public health must be a concern of the public. This advocacy has to use some specific examples of those matters that affect the public's health so that emerging diseases are not seen as a threat only on television. Universidad Peruana, Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Per . Acci n para la salud, Chimbote, Per .