7 NOVEMBER 2017 | GENEVA - WHO is recommending that farmers and the food industry stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals.
The new WHO recommendations aim to help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics that are important for human medicine by reducing their unnecessary use in animals. In some…
Washington, DC, 3 Nov. 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization and partner agencies recognized new Malaria Champions from Brazil, Haiti and the Dominican Republic today for work on "Closing local gaps toward Malaria Elimination." Two projects, one in a remote area of the Amazon in Brazil and another one in the Dominican Republic and…
World Hepatitis Summit 2017 calls for accelerated action to eliminate viral hepatitis
31 OCTOBER 2017 | SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - On the eve of the World Hepatitis Summit in Brazil, WHO reports increasing global momentum in the response to viral hepatitis. A record 3 million people were able to obtain treatment for hepatitis C over the past two…
32 countries and territories of the Americas administer this vaccine to pregnant women. Immunizing future mothers is key for preventing complications during gestation, and for protecting newborns.Washington, D.C., October 24 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - The Region of the Americas is a leader in vaccinating pregnant women against influenza, a public health…
18 OCTOBER 2017 | MONTEVIDEO - Heads of State and Government and ministers from around the world today committed to new and bold action to reduce suffering and death from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), primarily heart and lung diseases, cancers and diabetes, the world's leading killers.Governments endorsed the Montevideo Roadmap 2018-…
FAO and PAHO warn that hunger has increased in six countries and now affects 2.4 million persons in the region. While, overweight continues to be a public health problem across the Americas.10 October 2017, Santiago, Chile - The total number of persons that suffer from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased, reversing decades of…
Washington, Oct. 6, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization is focusing on quick delivery of expertise and supplies to islands affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, with a focus on Anguilla, Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, and Turks and Caicos Islands, according to the Organization's Department of Health Emergencies.
In…
Rousseau, Dominica, Oct. 5, 2017 (PAHO)- Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa F. Etienne traveled to Dominica yesterday to review the health situation on the island after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria, and commended health care workers for their service "even when they themselves have suffered losses."
PAHO's responsibility is…
World will have more obese children and adolescents than underweight by 202211 OCTOBER 2017 | LONDON - The number of obese children and adolescents (aged five to 19 years) worldwide has risen tenfold in the past four decades. If current trends continue, more children and adolescents will be obese than moderately or severely underweight by 2022,…