Quito, March 7, 2025 – The successful 2025 reclassification of Ecuador's Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) has demonstrated that the Ministry of Public Health's (MSP) two mobile hospitals meet the standards for international and national deployments in emergencies and disasters.The evaluation, which included a desk review and a visit to the mobile…
São Paulo, March 06, 2025 (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) - March 2025 marks the 58th anniversary of BIREME – the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) – one of the longest-lived and most strategic institutions in the Region of the Americas. Founded in 1967…
Bridgetown, Barbados – 24 February 2025 (PAHO) - More than seventy health care workers and health managers from Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC) have benefitted from a conference to enhance the medical care provided to mothers and their babies.The two-day conference ‘Improving Perinatal Care in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean…
Washington DC, February 28, 2025 (PAHO/WHO) – International experts and delegates from nine countries in the Americas participated in a virtual workshop to develop the dossier for the validation of the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. The event is the first virtual workshop with multi-country participation held for this purpose…
Asunción, February 2025 (PAHO) - Thanks to the technical cooperation provided by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), National Health Surveillance Directorate (DINAVISA, by Spanish acronym) updated the methodology for price regulation for over-the-counter medications by issuing 'DINAVISA Resolution 174/2004,' which came into effect in…
NASSAU, The Bahamas -- It was a call to action by the Ministry of Health and Wellness to remove the stigma of mental illness throughout the country.Towards this end, the ministry held a 'Mental Health Act In Action' symposium where its partners and other stakeholders assembled at the Atlantis Ballroom on Paradise Island on Thursday, January 23,…
NASSAU, The Bahamas -- The Ministry of Health and Wellness embarked on a public health approach to devise strategies for the prevention of violent crime across the country.On Thursday, January 16, 2025 the ministry staged the First National Forum on the Primary Prevention of Violence at Baha Mar Convention Centre, attracting a wide-cross section…
Port-of-Spain, 24 February 2025 (PAHO): The Trinidad and Tobago country office hosted the WHO QualityRights Train the Trainer Workshop from February 17 to 21 for over 30 persons working in the field of mental health from the Ministry of Health, the five Regional Health Authorities and NGOs.All workshop participants were required to…
Mexico City, 24 February 2025 - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) office in Mexico held a meeting on ethnic-racial and gender equity in eye health in the Americas on February 19 and 20, with the participation of 20 people from seven countries in the Region of the Americas.At the opening session of the…