Table 1. Latest available data on confirmed cases of communicable diseases and associated deaths in Venezuela, by disease and time period.

Disease	Time period	Confirmed cases	Deaths	Source
Vaccine preventable diseases
Diphtheria	W26 2016–W08 2019a	1,612	280	PAHO [16]
Measles	W26 2017–W52 2017a	727	2	PAHO [6]
	2018	5,667	74	PAHO [6]
	W01 2019–W13 2019b	140	NA	PAHO [6]
Mosquito-borne diseases
Chikungunya	2014	2,303	0	PAHO [17]
	2015	347	0	PAHO [17]
	2016	355	0	PAHO [17]
	2017	39	0	PAHO [17]
Dengue	2016	5,833	39	PAHO [18]
	2017	1,588	16	PAHO [18]
	2018	2,440	24	PAHO [18]
	W01 2019–W17 2019b	288	8	PAHO [18]
Malaria	2016	240,613	NA	WHO [9]
	2017	414,000	NA	WHO [9]
Zika	2016	2,380	0	PAHO [19]
	2017	2,413	0	PAHO [19]
Other vector-borne diseases
Chagas	Oct 2017–Apr 2018a	40	8	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
Oral Chagas disease	May 2016a	5	0	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
	Sep 2017a	6	3	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
	Mar 2018	42	6	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
Cutaneous leishmaniasis	1990–2016a	61,576	NA	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
	2014	Ca 1,750	NA	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
	2015	Ca 2,000	NA	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
	2016	Ca 2,000	NA	Grillet et al. 2019 [7]
HIV and tuberculosis
HIV	2016	120,000c	2,500	UNAIDS [20]
Tuberculosis	2017	10,952c	800	WHO [21]

HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; NA: not available; PAHO: Pan American Health Organisation; WHO: World Health Organization.

^a Time period corresponding to an outbreak.

^b Incomplete year.

^c These are prevalent confirmed cases.

Only confirmed cases are reported in Table 1. There may be a possible underestimation of cases; therefore, numbers should be interpreted with caution.