Every day Rosameli Rodríguez tends her family's garden plot. She grows a variety of fruits and vegetables, including the essential ingredients for preparing typical El Salvadorian meals: tomatoes, leafy greens and beans. She grows the vegetables under a mesh to protect them from contamination by birds or animals. Nevertheless, before preparing the…
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Every day at lunchtime, dozens of children pour into a newly built canteen next to their school in Palmiste Tampe, Haiti. They and their parents can feel safe about the food they are eating since it comes from a kitchen set up by World Central Kitchen, a non-profit organization that provides safely prepared food and education about it to schools…
On World Tuberculosis Day, March 24, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)…
On World Water Day 2015, the Regional Coalition for Water and Sanitation to Eliminate…
One in five maternal deaths in the Americas is the result of…
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health…
The mass scale-up of a pilot hypertension project sponsored by the U.S.…
WHO today issued its first-ever guidance for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B, a viral infection which is…