Expanding access to quality medicines and health…
Expanding access to quality medicines and health…
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 27 Oct. 2016-- The Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) is setting up a vaccination campaign against cholera in areas ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, with support from the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO).
The decision of WHO and other member of the Global Task Force for…
New song by Darryl Gervais, of Trinidad and Tobago, urges everyone: "Do Your Part" to fight Zika-carrying mosquitoes
Washington, D.C., 25 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Trinidadian singer-songwriter Darryl Gervais has recorded a new song for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to raise awareness in the Caribbean about the need to fight Aedes…
A new survey by the Pan American Health Organization/World…
Havana, 21 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Delegations from over 30 countries agreed today to promote a series of priority measures for the prevention and control of arboviruses, a group of mosquito-borne viruses that includes the Zika, dengue, and chikungunya virus. These measures involve strengthening epidemiological surveillance systems for the…
The director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO…
At Havana meeting, PAHO director urges consensus on prevention and control of arboviruses through integrated surveillance, laboratory networks, clinical case management and vector control
Washington, D.C., 21 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Health leaders from countries of the Americas are expected to agree on a series of actions to monitor,…
Washington, DC,October 21, 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Region of the Americas is celebrating 25 years with no cases of wild poliovirus. The last case was detected on August 23, 1991, in Peru. The countries of the region, supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), were able to eliminate polio and maintain the…
La Habana, 20 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Director of PAHO/WHO, Carissa F. Etienne, met today with the Minister of Health of Cuba, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the Secretary of Health of Human Services of the US, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, in a historic moment for both countries.
All three are attending a regional meeting in Havana, Cuba to…