Coverage of the Governing Bodies
Governing Bodies of the Pan American Health Organization comprises the following: The Pan American Sanitary Conference, the Directing Council, and the Executive Committee. The auxiliary advisory body to the Executive Committee is the Subcommittee on Program, Budget, and Administration.
News Related to Meetings of the Governing Bodies
Washington, D.C., September 27, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) -- Dr. Carissa F. Etienne was re-elected today for a second five-year term as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by the Member States of the organization.
Ministers of health meeting at the 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference voted unanimously to re-elect…
Indigenous, Roma, Afro-descendant and members of other ethnic groups face greater challenges to their health, resulting in higher rates of mortality and morbidity than the general population.
Washington, DC, September 26, 2017 (PAHO/WHO)—Ministers of health from the countries of the Americas committed to combat the barriers to health faced by…
Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of health from throughout the Americas agreed on a series of actions to improve access to and use of high-cost medicines and health technologies, and to protect the health of migrants, during the 55th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
High-cost medicines…
Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of health from throughout the Americas agreed on a series of actions to improve access to and use of high-cost medicines and health technologies, to improve patient care and ensure the sustainability of health systems.
The actions, set out in a framework approved by the 55th Directing…
Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The countries of the Americas met almost all the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a report presented to the region's health ministers during the 55th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
"As the result of 15 years of efforts…
Washington, D.C., 29 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of health and other delegates to the 55th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) agreed to take action and support investments to reduce disaster risks in the health sector and to make health systems more resilient in the face of disasters, epidemics and other…
Washington, D.C., 29 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of health from throughout the Americas have endorsed a series of actions aimed at mitigating the health impact of disasters by improving the capacity of countries' health sectors to respond to such events and to recover from their effects quickly and effectively. The Plan of Action for…
Washington, D.C., 29 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Noting that malaria "remains a serious threat" in the Americas that has resurged where efforts against the disease have weakened, health ministers from across the Region today adopted a new plan for malaria elimination over the next four years, urging countries to intensify the fight against…
Plan seeks to reduce new HIV infections, AIDS-related deaths, and the number of children born with HIV, among other goals.
Washington, D.C., 28 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Based on 30 years of public health efforts to respond to the HIV epidemic, ministers of health from the countries of the Americas approved a plan to scale up prevention and…