Sololá, Guatemala, January 2025 (PAHO) - As part of the effort to eliminate trachoma -- the leading infectious cause of blindness in the world -- a post-surgical campaign was held at the Guineales comprehensive care center in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán in the department of Sololá. The center functions under Sololá’s Departmental Office for…
Bridgetown, Barbados - January 27th, 2025 (PAHO). Three-day planning meetings in the PAHO/WHO Barbados Country Office signaled the start of a momentous antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance mission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC).AMR caused 1.27 million deaths in 2019 and is considered a global threat, especially to…
Cockburn Town, January 24, 2025 (PANAFTOSA/SPV-PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health (PANAFTOSA) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), along with the PAHO office in the Bahamas, is supporting the Environmental Health Department of the Ministry of Health and Human Services of the Turks…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA 23 JANUARY 2025- The new Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Representative to Guyana, Dr. Kim Eva Dickson, on Wednesday 22 January 2025 presented her credentials to Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd.Dr Dickson succeeds Dr. Luis Codina, who recently retired,…
Kingston, Jamaica, 22 January 2025 (PAHO) – During a recent workshop coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 30 Jamaican health professionals learned strategies to utilize immunization data to strengthen the country’s main vaccination program, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). Their enhanced capacity will have a…
Georgetown, 20 January 2025 (PAHO/WHO) - The PAHO/WHO Guyana country office team welcomes Dr. Kim Eva Dickson, incoming Representative. A national of Ghana and the UK, Dr. Dickson is a Public Health Physician with over 25 years of international experience. Her appointment was effective 12 January 2025. Dr. Dickson has worked in several countries…
Health professionals from fifteen countries trained in effective communication in pediatric oncology
St Jude Children´s Research Hospital y OPS organizaron el taller para fortalecer el enfoque centrado en el paciente y en la alfabetización en salud.Lima, Peru, January 17, 2025.- On January 15 and 16, the workshop on Effective Communication in Pediatric Oncology, organized by St Jude Children's Research Hospital in collaboration with the Pan…
Bridgetown, Barbados – 17 January 2025 (PAHO) – The Ministry of Health and Wellness with PAHO’s support launched the Creative Play initiative at a fourth school in Barbados.To address the incidence of NCDs and under the WHO STOP Obesity Initiative, the Ministry of Health and Wellness launched Creative Play at St. Albans, Charles F. Broome and…
L-R (Marlon Teelucksingh, Public Health Education Officer - Port of Spain City Corporation, Dr Gabriel Vivas Francesconi, PAHO/WHO Representative for Trinidad and Tobago and the Dutch Caribbean Islands, Victoria Allum, Chief Executive Officer of the Port of Spain City Corporation, Dr Stephen Nurse-Findlay, Advisor, Communicable Disease…