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.
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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."
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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,…
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…