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Population Aging a Challenge for Expanding Social Protection in Latin America The rapid aging of Latin America's population over the…
Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women  Despite the growing efforts of public and social health to…
TDR Wins 2011 Gates Award for Global Health TDR, the international partnership for research and scientific collaboration on diseases of poverty, is…
Washington , D.C., 20 May 2011 (PAHO) - Three tobacco control alliances-from Chile, Peru and around the world-will be honored by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) as part of this year's World No Tobacco Day campaign. The three groups have all worked to support the development, adoption and implementation…
Geneva, 17 May 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - Durante el segundo día de la 64ª Asamblea Mundial de la Salud, los discursos de Bill Gates, co director de la Fundación Bill y Melissa Gates, y de la primera ministra de Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, marcaron la agenda. En su discurso, Gates llamó a los líderes de los gobiernos a incrementar su inversión en vacunas y…
Haiti Presents Plan to Vaccinate 90 Percent of Children Under 1 Haiti has finalized a plan to ensure immunization against the…
PAHO celebrates first Global Internet Day On May 17th, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) held…
Governance for Health: Emerging Issue for Intersectoral Policymaking Health is rarely the sole responsibility of the health sector…