Washington, DC, 14 October 2010 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Journal of Public Health, PAHO's scientific and technical journal, has a special issue on prevention and control of type 2 diabetes in the United States-Mexico border. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that affects more than 220 million individuals worldwide.
The special issue…
Project to provide data on medical products, regulatory processes
Washington, Oct. 6, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the award of a $904,000 cooperative agreement to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to research and develop an information hub for medical products and related regulatory processes and systems…
With over 140 experts and professionals from the Americas in attendance, the "Regional Conference on Mental Health," chaired by Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of the Pan American Health Organization, will take place in Panama City.
The meeting, taking place at the Hotel Panama from 6 to 8 October 2010, is being held twenty years after the "Declaration…
In a two day visit to PAHO headquarters in Washington, DC, 4-5 October 2010, Dr. Ravi Narayan—the Community Health Advisor of the Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action, (SOCHARA) Bangalore, India—met with PAHO management and experts, and presented some of the work of his Society towards the achievement of the goal of Health…
1 October 2010. We have just listened to a press briefing by Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH, who discussed experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s, in which prisoners and other vulnerable groups were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. Collins said these experiments were "deeply disturbing" and "…
The Ministry of Health of Brazil, ANVISA and PAHO commit to strengthen regional cooperation in pharmaceutical regulatory systems and health surveillance.…
The UNiTE to End Violence Against Women Campaign will be launched 11 October in Barbados, with a Conference which has as its theme "Strengthening Accountability and Changing Culture to End Violence against Women in the Caribbean." The meeting will be attended by Attorneys General, members of the judiciary, senior representatives of regional police…
In Latin America and the Caribbean, health facilities continue to be built in high-risk areas without proper protective measuresWashington, D.C., Sept. 29, 2010 (PAHO) — Ministers of health from throughout the Americas called today for new efforts to make hospitals safer in disasters so they can continue providing health services at times of…
In Latin America and the Caribbean, some 160,000 cases of congenital syphilis are reported each year and 9,000 cases of HIV in children Washington, D.C., Sept. 30, 2010 (PAHO) — Representatives of member countries of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) pledged support today for a regional effort to eliminate mother-to-child…