Belize certified malaria-free by WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Belize as malaria-free on 21 June 2023.

Belize is the fourth country in the Americas and the second in Central America to be certified as free of malaria in the last 5 years.

Malaria elimination certification is granted by the WHO when a country has:

• shown that malaria transmission by Anopheles mosquitoes has been interrupted nationwide for at least three consecutive years
• demonstrated the capacity to prevent the re-establishment of malaria transmission

See the Malaria section for further information on the disease.