Washington, D.C., November 10, 2025 – To strengthen national and regional action on drowning prevention, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) convened a regional workshop bringing together representatives from 21 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), alongside international experts. The workshop aimed to strengthen both…
Washington, D.C., 5 November 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., from November 2 to 5, under the theme “Making the Public’s Health a National Priority.” The event gathered more than 12,000 public health professionals and…
Washington, D.C., November 5, 2025 – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is pleased to announce that more than 1,000 cities, communities and institutions across 18 countries and territories in the Americas have committed to becoming age-friendly, joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and…
Brasilia, November 5, 2025 (PAHO) – The Regional Meeting of Laboratories of the Severe Acute Respiratory Infections Network (SARInet plus ) was held with the aim of strengthening technical cooperation, the exchange of experiences, and regional integration in respiratory virus surveillance. The meeting, organized by the Pan American Health…
Washington, D.C., 28 October 2025 — The Network on Essential Public Health Functions to Strengthen Stewardship and Governance (RedFESP, by its Spanish acronym), established in September 2025 with the technical support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), held its first virtual meeting with the participation of representatives from…
Guatemala, October 30, 2025 (PAHO) – Guatemala has moved one step further toward the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem by holding a training workshop for the Trachoma Prevalence Survey “Plus”, organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in cooperation with Tropical Data and the Ministry of Public Health and Social…
Washington, D.C., October 31, 2025 – More than 40 representatives from Ministries of Health in 19 Latin American countries and other partners participated in the third and final session of the Subregional Training on Health Care for Child and Adolescent Survivors of Violence, following a series of hybrid meetings organized by the Pan American…
San Salvador, El Salvador, October 30, 2025 — Fifteen countries from the region and the Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS), participated in a workshop organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), focused on regulatory preparedness for overseeing pandemic or emergency-use…
Washington, D.C., 30 October 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) held the meeting “Strengthening the Nursing Workforce in the Americas through the Development of the New Regional Nursing Body (RNB) Strategic Plan for Nursing and Midwifery 2025–2035,” on October 29–30 in Bridgetown,…