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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…