São Paulo, March 27, 2023. Twenty-five years ago, in 1998, the Latin American and Caribbean Health Information Network approved the Declaration of San José “Towards the Virtual Health Library”. Since then, BIREME has been leading the development of the VHL model (Virtual Health Library) as a technical cooperation strategy in health information and…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, 8 March 2023 (PAHO) - The Joseph Nathaniel France (JNF) General Hospital in St. Kitts and Nevis is now certified as being Baby-Friendly. Certification was granted in October 2022 and the official handing over of the plaque took place on 7 March 2023.
To be certified as baby-friendly the Federation…
Buenos Aires, 23 March 2023 (PAHO/WHO) - With the purpose of assessing the situation of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) worldwide, discussing the challenges in implementing strategies to contain this global problem, promoting the implementation of national action plans, and strengthening laboratories, the 4th Meeting of the World Health…
Paramaribo, March 23, 2023 (PAHO) – Influenza pandemics are recurring events that pose a major global health security threat due to their unpredictability and their potentially devastating consequences on health and economies around the world. These events are difficult to predict, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as the 2009 influenza A…
Montevideo, March 23, 2023. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) published the regional progress report of the Towards the Elimination of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and Chagas Disease in the Region of the Americas (EMTCT Plus) initiative, with a 10-year assessment that includes some indications of the impact of the Covid-19…
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 20 March 2023 (PAHO) – The Georgetown Smart Health Centre was today officially handed over to the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment as part of the ‘Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. The USD 1,121,623.79 retrofitting upgrade was funded by UKaid from the Foreign…
Montevideo. March 22, 2023. On 17 and 18 March, the Latin American Centre for Perinatology - Women's Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP/WR), received at its headquarters in Uruguay the director of the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Pascale Allotey; the head of the HRP Secretariat, Craig Lissner;…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 21 March 2023 [PAHO] -- Guyana received 13,440 doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the Government of Spain. Four thousand, eight hundred (4,800) children's vaccines were received and handed to the Ministry of Health yesterday. The vaccine arrived in two shipments. The second shipment of eight thousand, six hundred and forty…
São Paulo, March 20, 2023. Due to the dynamics of knowledge production, the revision of thematic categories of the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) thesaurus is a continuous need in the context of terminological updating.
Regional guidelines for the construction and management of controlled vocabularies suggest that the addition of new…