5 Jun 2023
São Paulo, June 5, 2023. The sessions on Best Practices in the Editorial Processes of Scientific Journals for LILACS promote knowledge of key issues in the editorial process to improve the quality, positioning, and visibility of health sciences journals from Latin America and the Caribbean indexed in the Latin American and Caribbean Health…
3 Jun 2023
Yesterday the Ministry of Health (MOH) in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) launched the national expansion of the Hearts Initiative which aims to better assist healthcare professionals in the prevention and early detection of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension within primary health…
2 Jun 2023
GTR promotes campaign in the countries
Montevideo, June 2, 2023. Zero Maternal Deaths. Prevent the preventable with a multisectoral and equity perspective, is the name of the webinar that marks the end of the first part of the campaign of the Regional Task Force to Reduce Maternal Mortality (GTR, for its acronym in Spanish). In the next…
2 Jun 2023
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, June 1, 2023 (PAHO) - The Association of Councilwomen and Mayors of Bolivia (ACOBOL) has pledged to join the initiatives of Healthy Municipalities and Age-Friendly Cities and Communities led by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) at the regional and global levels. These initiatives are…
1 Jun 2023
Kingston, Jamaica, 1 June 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – This week, six more Caribbean professionals graduated from the year-long University of the West Indies (UWI) Climate Change and Health Leaders Fellowship Training Program. They are Dr Ayanna Alexander and Jenise Tyson from Trinidad and Tobago, Linnees Green-Baker and Dr Nicole Dawkins-Wright of…
1 Jun 2023
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, May 31, 2023 - Approximately 45 Bolivian health professionals from the country's nine departments, from second and third level health facilities, Departmental Health Services (SEDES) and the Ministry of Health and Sports (MSyD) participated in the workshop to validate the new Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Surveillance…
29 May 2023
São Paulo, May 29, 2023. Dr. Sebastián García Saisó, director of the Evidence and Intelligence for Health Action Department of the Pan American Health Organization (EIH/PAHO), and Mr. Marcelo D’Agostino, head of the Information Systems and Digital Health unit (IS/EIH/PAHO) were in São Paulo and Brasília between March 27th and 30th to…
26 May 2023
Belize City, Belize, May 26, 2023 (PAHO) - With the priority of improving the national health system, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Belize have strengthened their partnership by signing the 2023-2027 PAHO/WHO Country Cooperation Strategy.
The strategic lines of action focus on addressing health…
24 May 2023
Asunción, 24 May 2023. - The analysis of the situation of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality was presented; as well as the strategies and actions implemented to improve maternal and neonatal health at the national level, during the Ordinary Meeting of the "Neonatal Alliance and the National Mobilisation for the Reduction of Maternal and…