Havana, Cuba, April 24, 2018 (PAHO / WHO) -The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has urged countries to improve access to health care in order to prevent 600,000 deaths per year in the Americas, one of the most inequitable regions in the world.
"Today, more than a third of the region's inhabitants lack access to comprehensive, quality…
Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), highlighted the vital role of vaccination in ensuring universal health and in preventing 3 million deaths each year.
Havana, Cuba, 23 April 2018 (PAHO/WHO) - The most important…
Eleven countries announce plans to strengthen immunization programs following recent measles outbreaksWashington, D.C, 19 April 2018 (PAHO/WHO) - More than 70 million people will be vaccinated against a variety of dangerous vaccine-preventable diseases during the 16thannual Vaccination Week in the Americas - 10 million more than in 2017.…
Nadir Cardozo proudly displays her ID card. Nadir is a transgender woman, and since Argentina passed the Gender Identity Law in 2012, she and others have had the right to have their personal documents issued with the name and gender of their choice. This measure has enabled many women like Nadir, who once shied away from visiting a health center…
Port-au-Prince, 10 April 2018 (PAHO/WHO) - In the coming weeks, more than 2.3 million Haitian children between the ages of 1 and 14 are expected to be vaccinated against diphtheria, a bacterial infection that causes throat inflammation and difficulty breathing and that in severe cases can lead to death.
The diphtheria vaccination campaign was…
At a special World Health Day event, PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne and former president of Chile Michelle Bachelet urged collective action to ensure that all people, everywhere, have access to health
Washington, D.C., April 4, 2018 (PAHO / WHO) - On the eve of World Health Day, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (…
On World Tuberculosis Day, PAHO/WHO invites government, health sector, and civil society leaders and patients to take the necessary action to end this disease, which kills more than 20,000 people each year in the Region.Washington, D.C., March 23, 2018 (PAHO/WHO) -Although significant progress has been made in reducing tuberculosis cases in the…
Maintaining high and homogeneous immunization coverage, strengthening surveillance and quickly responding to suspected cases are some of the suggested measures to maintain measles elimination in the Americas
Washington, DC, 16 March 2018 (PAHO/WHO)- The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) warned that in the…
Brasilia, 23 February 2018 (PAHO/WHO) – Brazil recently received a shipment of 20 million syringes for use with fractional doses of the yellow fever vaccine. The syringes were provided by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at the request of the country's Ministry of Health. The size of the syringes – 0.1 cm³, or the equivalent of 0.1 mL…