Malaria medicine planning based on transmission risks.The PAHO Strategic Fund, in collaboration with the Regional Malaria Program, has developed an innovative tool for planning antimalarial medicine needs using the morbidity method, which includes aspects of the elimination strategy and considers local stratification to maintain minimum…
Georgetown, Guyana, April 11, 2024 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Department of Innovation, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (IMT), conducted a technical cooperation mission on the strengthening of regulatory and legal capacities for local production and access to health technologies in Guyana. The…
Washington DC, 24 April 2024- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated at sidelines events of the 2024 World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings and contributed to discussions on payment mechanisms for Primary Health Care (PHC) and to mitigate healthcare workers migration in the Americas.Payment mechanisms for Primary Health CareAs part of…
Lima, Peru, April 16-18, 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) convened technical experts, country representatives, and stakeholders to define country priorities and explore available tools and methodologies to strengthen integrated care in the first two decades of life using a life course approach.Throughout the Regional…
Washington DC, 23 April 2024 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) supported the organization of the First International Meeting on Scientific Communication, Health and Social Impact, held from April 8 to 12 at the Faculty of Sciences of Information from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), in Spain. Scholars and researchers…
A global movement of communities, civil society groups, human and animal health professionals, scientists, agroecologists, educators, artists, and indigenous peoples' representatives has demanded urgent action on the growing threat of bacteria resistant to antibiotics and the broader Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).Targeting High-Level meeting in…
Washington D.C., 19 April 2024. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) received public health officers, policy advisors, and epidemiologists from the Ministry of Tourism and Public Health and from the Department of Public Health of Aruba to participate in a data analysis meeting to examine the results, and implications, of the STEPS survey…
Washington D.C., 19 April 2024 (PAHO)—The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presented the current challenges with the migration and mobility of the health workforce in the Region and the urgent need for the international community to prioritize the investment in the formation and strengthening of the health professionals, during the G20 Side…
PAHO co-organized with UNFPA the side event Equity in Health: Promoting and guaranteeing the health and well-being of people of African descent in the Americas.Washington, D.C., April 17, 2024 - During the third session of the Permanent Forum of Afrodescendants, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from April 16-19, PAHO coordinated the side event Equity…