Washington, DC, September 29, 2017 (PAHO / WHO) - The 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ended today with the approval of a new health agenda for the Americas, and a series of strategies and plans of action to face health challenges in coming years.The Sustainable Health Agenda for the…
29 September 2017 | Geneva - On the International Day of the Older Person—1 October—WHO calls for a new approach to providing health services for older people. WHO highlights the role of primary care and the contribution community health workers can make to keeping older people healthier for longer. The Organization also emphasizes the…
New PAHO strategy to guide national policies on human resources for health to overcome an estimated shortage of almost 800,000 workersWashington, D.C., 28 of September 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - A new strategy approved today by the 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) aims to guide national policies on human…
Ministers of health and high-level health authorities convened at PAHO agree on a strategy and plan of action to strengthen tobacco control and completely free the Region from exposure to tobacco smoke in the next five yearsWashington, D.C., 27 September 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - High-level health authorities from throughout the Region of the Americas…
Washington, D.C., September 27, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) -- Dr. Carissa F. Etienne was re-elected today for a second five-year term as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by the Member States of the organization.
Ministers of health meeting at the 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference voted unanimously to re-elect…
Washington, DC, September 27, 2017 (PAHO / WHO) - Ministers of Health at the 29th Pan American Sanitary Conference of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) agreed on a new health agenda to combat diseases and attain universal health by 2030, as well as actions to strengthen tobacco control, maintain the elimination of measles and rubella,…
Washington, D.C., 27 September 2017 (PAHO/WHO) -Health leaders from throughout the Americas have endorsed an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda for fighting diseases and making their countries' health systems universal and sustainable by the year 2030.
The Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2030 (SHAA2030)-which takes inspiration from the…
The group will become part of the international list of emergency medical teams that can be deployed quickly when requested by countries affected by disasters or emergencies.Washington, DC, September 26, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - The emergency medical team of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador is the second in the Americas region to receive…
Indigenous, Roma, Afro-descendant and members of other ethnic groups face greater challenges to their health, resulting in higher rates of mortality and morbidity than the general population.
Washington, DC, September 26, 2017 (PAHO/WHO)—Ministers of health from the countries of the Americas committed to combat the barriers to health faced by…