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Announcements
THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECESSION and the MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Washington, D.C. 49th Directing Council. October 1, 2009.- Important dialogue between Ministers of Health of the Americas during the celebration of the 49º.Directing council of PAHO analyzes the impact of the world economic crisis for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, the most ambitious endeavor ever pursued against poverty, where the principles of equity, solidarity and the right to the highest attainable health are the core values of the PHC approach; while its guiding principles are the responsiveness to people's health needs, social justice, quality-oriented services, government accountability, sustainability, participation and intersectoriality. Director's Newsletter
(2/Oct/2009)
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Advancing toward Health for All: Progress in Primary Health Care in the Americas.
Annual Report from PAHO Director, 2009.
There are countries in our Region and in the World that have managed to build health Systems that effectively guarantee universal and equitable access, that are collective and participatory, and that at the same time ensure efficiency, effectiveness, and quality. All of these systems are based on primary health care.
Annual Report of the Director 2009(2/Oct/2009)
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PAHO, Humanitarian Clowns and Health Experts Join Forces, Using Art as a Bridge to Health and Development
Washington, D.C. - From 4 to 16 August, art becomes a bridge to health access for thousands of people in a remote and vulnerable community in Peru with the arrival of some 100 humanitarian clowns and international public health experts from 12 countries, as part of the Pan American Health Organization’s Faces, Voices and Places Initiative for the Millennium Development Goals.
PAHO VIDEO »Arte, Puente para la Salud (in Spanish)
Art and Health: together in the Belén Festival
PAHO Director, health promoters and humanitarian clowns will join Belén Festival in Peru
Humanitarian Clowns and Health Experts Join Forces, Using Art as a Bridge to Health and Development(17/Aug/2009)
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Books
Gobernabilidad y Salud: Políticas públicas y participación social
Este volumen reúne algunas de las contribuciones recibidas durante una discusión en panel sobre salud y gobernabilidad en el III Congreso Internacional del Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD)en octubre de 1998, y una reunión de consulta con académicos, representantes de organizaciones internacionales y de la sociedad civil, en Washington, DC en diciembre del mismo año.(26/Dec/1999)
en español 
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EQUITY listserv
To disseminate information relevant to individuals and organizations working on Equity, Health and Human Development issues.(26/Jul/2000)
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Periodical Publications
Perspectives in Health - Volume 7, Number 3, 2002
Magazine published three times a year by the Pan American Health Organization. This edition features the following articles: Living to 100 - Globesity: The Crisis of Growing Proportions - Haiti: Dark, Light and Color - Don Francisco Gives Back - A Marriage of Medicines(31/Dec/2002)
In English (8.65k)
en español (8.85k)
Perspectives in Health - Volume 4, Number 2, 1999
Magazine published twice a year by the Pan American Health Organization. This edition features the following articles: Canada's New Arctic Territory Charts its Course - A Land of Possibility: Honduras' Mosquito Coast - Experience of a Lifetime - Transforming Information into Innovation - The Handwriting on the Wall - Bioterrorism: Thinking about the Unthinkable.(1/Dec/2000)
In English (2.78k)
en español (2.92k)
Technical Documents
Health Systems Strengthening
Health Systems Strengthening in Latin America and the Caribbean(24/Jul/2007)
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Toward Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: 3 by 5 Report for the Americas
As governments, organizations, and individuals strive to combat AIDS deaths and the spread of HIV, we must all aim high. The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its potential to spread require high level planning and large scale action. When the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS set the goal to treat three million people with antiretrovirals by 2005, it was with this aim to think big and achieve commensurate gains.(3/Aug/2006)
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CE138/15
(24/May/2006)
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