Washington, Oct. 21, 2010, (PAHO/WHO) — The Pan American Health Organization said today that it has received laboratory confirmation of cases of cholera in Haiti, in Artibonite province, and is responding to help the Ministry of Health assess the situation and respond appropriately to save lives. So far, PAHO has been informed that more than 1,500…
Millions expected to participate in the 3rd annual Global Handwashing Day, Oct. 15Washington, D.C., October 14, 2010 (PAHO) — Schoolchildren throughout the Western Hemisphere are gearing up for a mass handwashing event that could break a Guinness World Record set last year on Global Handwashing Day.This Friday, Oct. 15—the 3rd annual Global…
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses, sent a congratulatory message to Chile's Health Minister, Dr. Jaime Mañalich, on "the magnificent culmination of the successful operation to rescue the miners trapped inside San José mine."According to Dr. Roses, "This operation demonstrates the excellent level of…
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.…