Contributors

Overview: Judith Navarro (Coordinator), Byron Crape, Anabel Cruz, Andrea DiPaola, Oscar Mujica, Alfonso Ruiz, Patricia L.Ruiz, John Silvi, Fernando Zacarías

Chapter 1: Sofíaleticia Morales (Coordinator),Marco Akerman, Alfredo Calvo, Rafael Flores, Saúl Franco, Guilherme Franco Netto, Alejandro Giusti, Elsa Gómez, Jorge Iván González, Antonio Hernández ,Lilia Jara, Fernando Lolas,Jesús López Macedo, Enrique Loyola, Rocío Rojas, Maria Helena Romero, Patricia L.Ruiz, Rubén Suárez, Cristina Torres, Javier Vázquez

Chapter 2: Gabriela Fernández (Coordinator), Raimond Armengol, Steven Ault, Alberto Barceló, Roberto Becker, Yehuda Benguigui, Keith Carter, Carlos Castillo Solórzano, Carolina Danovaro, Mirta del Granado, Amalia del Riego, Chris Drasbek, John Ehrenberg, Rainier Escalada, Saskia Estupiñán, Daniela Fernandes da Silva, Ricardo Fescina, Érika García, Andrea Gerger, Alejandro Giusti, Thomas Harkins, James Hospedales, Ithzak Levav, Marlo Libel, Silvana Luciani, Chessa Lutter, Miguel Machuca, Matilde Maddaleno, Sara Marques, Christina Marsigli, Rafael Mazín, Oscar Mujica, Monica Palak, Marta Peláez, Pilar Ramon-Pardo, Jorge Rodríguez, Rocío Rojas, Alba María Ropero, Roberto Salvatella, Roxane Salvatierra, Celsa Sampson, José Luis Sanmartin, Cristina Schneider, Juan Carlos Silva, John Silvi, Cristina Torres Parodi, Ciro Ugarte, Armando Vásquez, Enrique Vega

Chapter 3: Samuel Henao, Enrique Loyola y Cristina Schneider (Coordinators), Adriana Blanco, María Teresa Cerqueira, Alberto Concha-Eastman, Vera Luiza Da Costa Siva, Diego Daza, Hernan Delgado, Luiz A. Galvão, Genaro García, Diego González, Eduardo Guerrero, Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, Fernando Leanes, Jorge López, Mildred Maisonet, Maristela Monteiro, Sofialeticia Morales, José Naranjo, Mireya Palmieri, Mauricio Pardón, Enrique Pérez, Emilio Ramírez, Marilyn Rice, Eugenia Rodrigues, Celso Rodríguez,Alfonso Ruiz, Henry Salas, Rosa Sandoval, Víctor Saravia, Kerstin Schotte, Heather Selin, Homero Silva, Luz Maritza Tennassee, Ricardo Torres

Chapter 4: Cristina Puentes-Markides (Coordinator), María Cecilia Acuña, Gisele Almeida, Jorge Bermúdez, Mónica Bolis, Pedro Brito,Jaume Canela Soler, Regina Castro, María de los Angeles Cortés, Luis Gabriel Cuervo Amore, José Ramiro Cruz, Rafael Flores, Amparo Gordillo Tobar, Margarita Hurtado, Pablo Jiménez, Eduardo Levcovitz, Ramón Martínez, Hernán Montenegro, Carme Nebot, Abel Packer, Daniel Purcallas, Félix Rígoli, Priscilla Rivas-Loria, Carlos Rosales, José Ruales-Estupiñán, Patricia L. Ruiz, Rubén Suárez Berenguela, América Valdés, Fernando Zacarías

Chapter 5: Rebecca de los Ríos y Hugo Prado (Coordinators),Carlos Arosquipa, Alfredo Calvo, Mariela Canepa, Paul Mertens, Patricia L. Ruiz, Ciro Ugarte, Fernando Zacarías

Chapter 6: Judith Navarro (Coordinator), George A.O. Alleyne, Stephen Blount, Paulo Buss, Nils Kastberg, Gustavo Kourí, Jay McAuliffe, Sylvie Stachenko, Muthu Subramanian, Ricardo Uauy, Marijke Velzeboer-Salcedo.

Working Group for Health in the Americas 2007: Fernando Zacarías (Coordinator) ,Patricia L.Ruiz (Technical Secretary), Gustavo Bergonzoli, Carlos Castillo Solórzano, Anabel Cruz, Gerardo de Cosio, Amalia del Riego, Ricardo Fescina, Samuel Henao, Branka Legetic, Eduardo Levcovitz, Marlo Libel, Chessa Lutter, Miguel Machuca, Mildred Maisonet, Humberto Montiel, Hernán Montenegro, Sofialeticia Morales, Oscar Mujica,Judith Navarro, Armando Peruga, Alfonso Ruiz, Cristina Puentes-Markides, Alba María Ropero, Cristina Schneider, Javier Uribe, Enrique Vázquez, Gina Watson.

Editing and production: Anabel Cruz (Coordinator), Leslie Buechele, Patricia De los Ríos, Andrea DiPaola, Mariesther Fernández, Judith Navarro, Roberta Okey, Lucila Pacheco, Cecilia Parker, Alfonso Ruiz, Haydée Valero

Promotion: José Carnevali, Daniel Epstein, Mylena Pinzón, Evelyn Rodríguez, Eleana Villanueva

Graphic Design:Gilles Collete, Guenther Grill,Ajibola Oyeleye

Web site: Dr. Richard Van West-Charles, Marcelo D'Agostino, Juan Feria, Myrna Marti, Juan Carlos Diaz, Andres Venturino, Erico Perez Neto

General Coordinator: Fernando Zacarías

Technical Coordinator: Patricia L.Ruiz.

We would like to thank the personnel of the ministries of health and other governmental institutions,international agencies,nongovern- mental organizations,and other entities for so generously supplying the data and information used for this publication.In spite of the fact that great efforts have been made to include all contributors,we apologize for any possible errors or omissions that may have occurred.