Castries, Saint Lucia, 21 February 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently supported the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs in conducting a comprehensive costing exercise for Saint Lucia’s Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI).An EPI costing exercise is a financial analysis designed to assess the costs…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 21 February 2025 (PAHO) – Barbados now has a Living Laboratory, marking a significant milestone in public health innovation and research.The state-of-the-art facility, located on the grounds of the Best dos Santos Public Health Laboratory at Enmore Complex, Martindales Road, St. Michael, was officially opened by Prime…
Buenos Aires, February 20, 2025 (PAHO). The representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Eva Jané Llopis, and the Minister of Health of Argentina, Mario Lugones, concluded today the working sessions of national regulatory agencies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico. These agencies gathered in Buenos Aires…
Mexico City, February 18, 2025 - More than a hundred workers from the federal Ministry of Health, state ministries, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), and IMSS-Bienestar are participating in the HEARTS National Workshop on Quality Improvement, organized by the Ministry of Health, through the National Center for Preventive Programs and…
Kingston, Jamaica, 18 February 2025 (PAHO) – As global concerns about air quality and the impact of air pollution continue to grow, the PAHO Jamaica Country Office hosted a workshop under the theme "Integrated Air Quality, Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, and Health Roadmap in Jamaica" to address air quality and its impact on health and well-being.…
St. Georges, Grenada - February 11th, 2025 (PAHO) - Grenada has joined more than 15 other Caribbean nations to launch the HEARTS Initiative as a way of scaling-up Better Care for NCDs.Personnel from the PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries, the Ministry of Health and St. George’s University, were joined by health care…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 18 February 2025 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched consultations with member states and partners across the Caribbean to evaluate the implementation of the 2019-2023 Caribbean Action Plan on Health and Climate Change, share lessons learnt, and begin the development of a new five-year…
Mexico City, February 18, 2025 - To strengthen the scaling and institutionalization of the HEARTS initiative in the Americas and in all healthcare delivery subsystems in the country, the workshop "Planning and methodological strengthening meeting. HEARTS in the Americas" began in Mexico, with the participation of the Federal Ministry of Health,…
Quito, February 17, 2025 - "These new medicines give us hope," said Sonia, mother of Saida, a little girl who inspires many with her strength and who, thanks to the Global Platform for Access to Medicines for Childhood Cancer, will have a new opportunity through the treatment she is receiving at the Baca Ortiz Pediatric Hospital (Quito).Like…