Washington, DC, September 10, 2010 (PAHO) — A community development program in rural Andean communities in Peru has succeeded in reducing pneumonia and diarrhea in half among 70,000 families over the last four years, according to Pilar Nores de García, First Lady of the Republic of Peru.Mrs. Nores de Garcia spoke today at the Pan American Health…
Washington, D.C., 10 September 2010 (PAHO)—The national Laboratories for the Quality Control of Medicines in Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay have been prequalified by PAHO/WHO to serve as "International Reference Laboratories for the Agencies of the United Nations". CONCAMYT, the National Laboratory for Quality Control of Medicines (Bolivia), the…
Washington, D.C., 9 September 2010 (PAHO)—Dr. Jon Kim Andrus, Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), hosted the first quarterly meeting with the President of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Dr. Georges Benjamin, as part of APHA's interest in strengthening and institutionalizing the partnership between the…
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are for the most part on track to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new United Nations report indicates, but significant gaps remain between and within countries.Overcoming those gaps by 2015 will require greater public spending on health, expansion of social protection in…
Honolulu, Hawaii (PAHO) — The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses, is in Hawaii to participate in the sixth Healing Our Spirit Worldwide conference, a gathering of people and organizations dedicated to improving the health and well-being of indigenous peoples throughout the world.In remarks at the Governor's…
Washington, D.C. (PAHO)—A meeting at PAHO's headquarters in Washington D.C. put in evidence the growing importance of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences, better known as BIREME. The high-level meeting discussed a new institutional framework for the governance, management, and financing of BIREME, and highlighted the work of…
Washington, D.C., August 10, 2010 (PAHO) — The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic has effectively ended, and the world has moved into a "post-pandemic" phase characterized by traditional seasonal patterns of influenza.…
Geneva, 10 August 2010 - The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Margaret Chan, announced today that the H1N1 influenza virus has moved into the post-pandemic period. Although the world is no longer experiencing an influenza pandemic, some countries will continue to experience significant H1N1 (2009) epidemics. Based on…
Public health experts, humanitarian clowns, members of the Belén Network come together to help the inhabitants of Belén, Iquitos, Peru.Washington, D.C., 4 August 2010 (PAHO) — For the fifth consecutive year, art is being used as a bridge to promote health during the Belén Festival held from 4 to 14 August in Belén, Iquitos, Peru in…