One in five maternal deaths in the region results from hemorrhage during the third trimester of pregnancy or immediately following childbirth
Washington, D.C., December 8, 2017- An approach based on human rights using international legal instruments can help in the effort to reduce maternal mortality in the Americas, according to experts speaking…
The World Health Organization has validated Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Saint Kitts and Nevis as achieving dual elimination
Saint Kitts and Nevis/ Geneva, December 1, 2017 - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Saint Kitts and Nevis were today certified by the World…
New report says that expanding access to all prevention options could reduce the 120,000 new cases of HIV reported each year in Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, DC, November 29, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - A new report from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and UNAIDS says that expanding access to all HIV prevention options that are…
Washington, D.C., November 28, 2017 (PAHO/WHO- SOI) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Special Olympics today signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at increasing access to quality health care for people with intellectual disabilities.
Under the agreement, the organizations will collaborate to train health workers, educate…
Washington, D.C., November 28, 2017 (PAHO/WHO- SOI) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Special Olympics today signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at increasing access to quality health care for people with intellectual disabilities.
Under the agreement, the organizations will collaborate to train health workers, educate…
Washington, Nov. 22, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - Health services can take specific steps to respond to violence against women and help prevent its future occurrences, if they are equipped with the tools and training they need.
These are the conclusions of a new manual being issued by the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization…
17 November 2017 | MOSCOW/ GENEVA - Today 75 ministers agreed to take urgent action to end tuberculosis by 2030. The announcement came at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multisectoral Response, which brought together delegates from 114 countries in Moscow. President Vladimir…
Moscow, November 15 2017 (PAHO/WHO)- Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa F. Etienne and Russian Federation Health Minister Veronika I. Skvortsova today signed an agreement to collaborate in health protection, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, response to major epidemics, and other public health areas.
The Russian…
In the Region of the Americas, the rate of adult obesity is more than double the world average, with women more affected than men. Halting the advance of this condition through policies and healthy lifestyles can prevent future cases of diabetes.
Washington, D.C., 10 November 2017 (PAHO/WHO)—Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes.…