Washington, DC, 30 November 2018 (OPS/OMS)- Ministers of Health from the Americas and the Secretariat of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) yesterday identified a series of actions that seek to improve the response of health systems to the mass migration that is occurring in the Region. In a meeting convened at PAHO’s headquarters,…
Knowing HIV status is vital to accessing prevention, treatment, ensuring follow-up, protecting future partners and avoiding new HIV infections. 1 in 4 people with the virus in Latin America and the Caribbean do not know they have it.
Washington D.C., November 30 2018 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization…
Washington, D.C., November 26 2018 (PAHO/WHO) – While progress in the Region of the Americas has been made over the past 20 years to harmonize national regulatory systems in order to ensure access to safe, effective and quality medicines, more must be done for well-functioning health systems that want to achieve Universal Health.
This was one of…
19 November, 2018 ¦ MAPUTO/GENEVA - Reductions in malaria cases have stalled after several years of decline globally, according to the new World malaria report 2018. To get the reduction in malaria deaths and disease back on track, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are joining a new country-led response, launched…
Mobile application to facilitate introduction of a pill to prevent new cases of HIV in Latin America
The App provides clinical professionals, counselors, pharmacists, HIV testing providers, and current or potential users of pre-exposure prophylaxis with key information.
Guatemala, 19 November 2018 (PAHO/WHO)- A mobile application developed in Spanish by the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Jhpiego, an…
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2018 (PAHO / WHO) — A new manual launched by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University (FIU) calls on countries in the Americas to set up programs to optimize the use of…
Guatemala, 9 November 2018 (PAHO/WHO)—Don Manuel Cac is 75 years old and has begun to pay more attention to his health since graduating from the “Take control of your health” program, which aims to promote self-care among Guatemala’s elderly population living with noncommunicable diseases.
“I really enjoyed the training. I didn’t miss any of the…
Washington, D.C., 6 November 2018 (PAHO / WHO) — Malaria control programs in Brazil, Paraguay and Suriname have received the Malaria Champions of the Americas award, given out each year by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and its partners to initiatives that contribute to eliminating the disease in the region.…
Geneva, 29 October 2018 – Every day around 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2016, 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory…