It's time to move "from words to action" to overcome these obstacles, said participants in a PAHO event marking Universal Health Day and Human Rights Day
Washington, D.C., 12 December 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people throughout the Americas and worldwide face stigma and discrimination, both in society generally and…
Only one focus of onchocerciasis (river blindness) persists in the Americas, on the border between Brazil and Venezuela. The disease is still present in 31 African countries and Yemen.
Guatemala City, 8 December 2016 (PAHO/WHO)- A hundred years after Guatemalan ophthalmologist Rodolfo Robles established the causal relationship between…
"Take the challenge. End AIDS" is the Pan American Health…
28 November 2016, Port-au-Prince, Haiti—Haiti's Ministry of Health (MSPP) is nearing completion of its vaccination campaign against cholera, having reached more than 729,000 people with vaccines in Sud and Grand Anse departments, areas ravaged by Hurricane Matthew.
With support from the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization…
Today, UN human rights experts told countries…
Some 50 health care facilities in seven Caribbean countries are being improved…
18 November 2016 - The fifth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) on Zika and microcephaly convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) regarding microcephaly, other neurological disorders and Zika virus was held by teleconference on 18 November 2016.
The Committee was briefed on the…
Ottawa, Canada, 15 November 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) met in Ottawa this week with high-level Canadian authorities to provide updates on a number of joint PAHO/WHO-Canada cooperation initiatives and to discuss future opportunities for Canada and PAHO…