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The Social Development Ministry and UNFPA signed a 19-month, L7.6 million (about $305,000) agreement for the "Sembrando Futuros" project, which will directly serve 600 girls and adolescents across nine municipalities in seven departments, aiming to cut teen pregnancies, school dropout, and violence.

Health authorities confirmed a six-month-old infant in Cortés contracted measles, bringing Honduras's total to 12 cases, and warned that vaccination coverage of only 70% falls far short of the 95% needed to prevent a wider outbreak.

Honduras will host the Third International Congress on Rare Diseases in Tegucigalpa from July 16–18, bringing together health officials, researchers, and patient advocates from 10 countries to strengthen regional cooperation and improve care for rare-disease patients.

Honduras's health ministry is monitoring 200 suspected measles cases, with six confirmed, concentrated in Cortés, Yoro, and the Bay Islands, as officials urge vaccination to contain the outbreak.

Honduras's agricultural health authority has confirmed avian influenza in wild birds, particularly black vultures, and has collected about 450 dead birds while monitoring over 150,000 backyard poultry in 90 communities to prevent spread to domestic flocks.

Patients returned to hospitals and clinics after physicians and the government reached a deal ending ten days of labor protests, though appointment backlogs, medicine shortages, and long wait times persist.

About 500 public-sector physicians are protesting unpaid salaries stretching two to five months back and demanding reinstatement of colleagues they say the government fired, causing partial service cuts across Honduras's public hospitals.