Regional Stories
Washington, D.C. February 2, 2021 (PAHO) – Erin Brown often thinks of her mother, a vibrant woman who lost her life to lupus in 1998. From the ages of 12 to 17, Erin watched her mother fight cancer until her last breath. So when Erin learned in 2004 that she also had been diagnosed with a serious disease, advanced osteosarcoma, she…
Urban-to-rural migration is the main factor in the population growth of the municipality of Sucre, Bolivia.
In Santo Domingo, the Friends Against Childhood Cancer Foundation (Fundación de Amigos Contra el Cáncer Infantil - FACCI), provides treatment, diagnosis, funds to provide nurses, and has a team that attends 24/7 to pediatric patients.
Erin Brown creates space for inclusion within health care services and the workplace
— Washington, D.C., 2020 —
Following the call from the WHO Director General in 2018, in August 2020, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for elimination of cervical cancer and adopting a strategy to make it happen.
The Global Strategy outlines the following threshold: we will have eliminated cervical cancer as a public health problem when all countries…
Six delegations from PAHO and the Guatemalan Ministry of Health toured the most affected areas of the country to assess the damage and health needs.