Washington D.C. December 4, 2024 (PAHO) – A new report into violence against Indigenous and Afro descendent women and girls, launched today by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), calls on countries of the Americas and partner organizations to urgently improve information and strengthen the implementation of programs that address the…
Washington DC, December 2, 2024 (PAHO) - The Ministry of Health of El Salvador (MINSAL) has joined the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) through the establishment of the Mesa Consultiva of Primary Health Care (PHC) in El…
The initiative aims to promote greater awareness and expand access to the HIV prevention pill, whose adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean remains limited.Washington, D.C., November 28, 2024 (PAHO).– In the context of World AIDS Day (December 1), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched the "Better with PrEP" campaign,…
Washington D.C., November 26, 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) continues to urge countries of the Americas to maintain mpox surveillance, including laboratory detection and genomic sequencing of confirmed cases, following the detection of a Clade I variant case for the first time in the Region, in the United States of…
Baku, Azerbaijan/Washington, D.C., 22 November 2024 – At COP29 this week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) underscored the importance of focusing on the needs of populations in situations of vulnerability when implementing policies to address the health impact of climate change.Speaking at the 29th United Nations Climate Change…
19 November 2024 Overview:The Regional Organizations of the Americas – the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) - congratulate Brazil's government on a very…
Washington, DC, November 15, 2024 (PAHO)- The Northern Huetar Region of Costa Rica was today awarded with the 2024 Malaria Champions prize, an initiative that recognizes evidence-based efforts in malaria control and elimination in the Americas.The announcement was made during an event organized by PAHO as part of Malaria Day in the Americas.…
Washington D.C. 14 November 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, today convened Ministers of Health and other high-level health authorities for a panel discussion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pan American Sanitary Code.The Pan American Sanitary Code, which was adopted by countries of…
14 November 2024 | Geneva / Washington, D.C. (PAHO/WHO)– While global measles cases surged to an estimated 10.3 million in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year, the Americas region has successfully regained its status as free of endemic measles, with Brazil recently re-verified as having eliminated the disease.Globally, inadequate…