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…
23 May 2023
Montevideo, May 23, 2023. In the framework of the campaign Zero Maternal Deaths. Prevent the prevetable, promoted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) together with other organisations that make up the Interagency Working Group for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR, for its acronym in Spanish), a document is published with…
23 May 2023
Suriname, May 23, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – Throughout the years, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has worked with governments, healthcare organizations, and other partners to ensure that children and adults across the Americas have access to life-saving vaccines. Every year in the last week of April, Vaccination Week in the Americas is…
22 May 2023
Suriname, May 22, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – This year, the Walk the Talk: Health for All Challenge returned to Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday, May 21, 2023, to kickstart the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly. However, the impact of this global initiative extended far beyond the borders of Switzerland. The Ministry of Health in Suriname organized its own…
22 May 2023
Left to Right: PAHO/WHO Subregional Advisor Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology, Dr Franka des Vignes, PAHO/WHO Country Representative, Dr. Erica Wheeler, The Honorable Minister of Health, Terrence Deyalsingh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Republic to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, His…
22 May 2023
São Paulo, May 22, 2023. As of April 2023, BIREME/PAHO/WHO began to operate in a physical space provided by the Representative of PAHO/WHO in Brazil (PAHO Brazil) in Brasilia. With the effective support of the Representative of PAHO/WHO Brazil, Dr. Socorro Gross Galeano, jointly with the Director of BIREME, Dr. João Paulo Souza, the new…
18 May 2023
Georgetown, Guyana- 17 May 2023- Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)/ Global Affairs Canada Project donated forty-four (44) pieces of equipment at the Central Supply Unit (CSU Bond), located in Kingston, to the Ministry of Health's Maternal and Child Health Department and the Women's Health Unit to aid in the…
16 May 2023
Montevideo, May16, 2023 – As part of the campaign promoted by the Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR, for its acronym in Spanish), Zero Maternal Deaths. Prevent the preventable, a webinar was held to present data from the study "Rapid diagnosis of factors contributing to the increase in maternal and…
15 May 2023
Bridgetown, Barbados, 15 May, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children with support from Together for Girls and the US Centers for Disease Control welcomed government representatives across multiple sectors and from…