Kingston, Jamaica, 05 May 2025 (PAHO): The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW), hosted a workshop on April 30 to educate healthcare workers on the dangers of mercury in skin lightening products (SLPs). The session formed part of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded…
San Salvador, El Salvador. 2 April 2025, (PAHO/WHO) - El Salvador has made a significant stride in improving its emergency response capabilities with the implementation of the Joint Emergency Response Operations System (JEROS). This process included training on the use of JEROS, which saw participation from the Vice Minister of Management and…
San Salvador, El Salvador. From April 23 to 25, 2025, El Salvador hosted an assessment mission organized by the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines. The objective of the mission was to evaluate the country’s readiness to implement the Platform, ensuring a sustainable and high-quality supply of pediatric oncology medicines.The…
Dr. Jarbas Barbosa Da Silva, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO)Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 30 April 2025 (PAHO/WHO) - On April 25, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago celebrated a significant achievement with the virtual…
São Paulo, April 30, 2025 (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) - The multilingual thesaurus Descriptors in Health Sciences/Medical Subject Headings (DeCS), maintained by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (BIREME/PAHO/WHO), has incorporated 206 new descriptors in…
City of Belmopan, Belize, April 30, 2025 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW) and the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy of the Indian Law Society, hosted a two-day training workshop for media professionals on suicide reporting. “Suicide remains a significant…
Lethem, Guyana – 30 April 2025 – In a powerful demonstration of regional cooperation, the Governments of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Brazil, together with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), officially launched the Cross-Border Vaccination Week in the Americas today. The event, hosted jointly by…
La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, April 28, 2025 (PAHO)- The reference laboratories, Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud "Dr. Néstor Morales Villazón" INLASA, in La Paz, and the Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales CENETROP, in Santa Cruz, obtained recommendations from InDRE/WHO and PAHO to strengthen quality policy…
28 April 2025. Asunción, Paraguay. - From April 21 to 25, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS), carried out a technical cooperation mission to strengthen the national response to HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and…