IVI and Peru

 

Member State Relations

 

On June 13, 1997, the Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations, H.E. Fernando Guillen Salas, signed the IVI Establishment Agreement.

 

On June 5, 2000, the Congress of Peru ratified the IVI Establishment Agreement.

 

Peruvian Leadership at IVI

 

At the 2023 inaugural meeting of the IVI Global Council, Peru was represented by Mr. Cristian Díaz Vélez, the General Director in the General Directorate of Strategic Interventions in Public Health, in the Ministry of Health. 

 

Ongoing Collaboration

 

Typhoid Surveillance in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Peru

In 2024, IVI launched three projects to estimate the seroincidence of Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi A infections in Peru, Brazil, and Ethiopia. 

 

The project in Peru, named Peruvian Investigation of Pathogenic Enterobacterales (PIPE), involves a cross-sectional population-based serosurvey in fivve high-risk regions: Arequipa, Lima, Loreto, Tumbes, and Ucayali. Data collection began in 2024, with 550 participants enrolled by mid-November. The study is searching for Salmonella infections, blood culture surveillance in the highest burden areas, the estimation of incidence rates for typhoid, paratyphoid, invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella, and other pathogenic Enterobacterales, and assessing antimicrobial resistance.

 

In Peru, PIPE is being conducted in collaboration with the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. PIPE is funded by the government of Sweden.