Countries with the greatest unmet sanitation and water needs most often receive little or no aidWASHINGTON, D.C. 21 April 2010 - Between 1997 and 2008, aid commitments for sanitation and water fell from 8% of total development aid to 5%, lower than commitments for health, education, transport, energy and agriculture, according to the latest UN-…
PAHO and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC) will celebrate the 2010 World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 22 April with a panel discussion on "My Work, My Health: Healthy Workplaces in the Americas." The winners of the "My Work, My Health" photo contest will also be announced at the event, to be held at PAHO…
PAHO Supports Campaign to Make Schools and Hospitals Safer
Washington, D.C., 9 April, 2010 (PAHO) — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is pledging its support to the One Million Safe Schools and Hospitals Campaign launched April 8 in Manila. The goal of the new United Nations global campaign is to protect health and educational…
On World Health Day, a call to join "the global movement to make cities healthier"Washington, D.C., 7 April 2010 (PAHO)—For the first time in world history, more than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to grow to 70 percent by the year 2050. Addressing the unique health challenges brought by this…
Washington, DC, April 1, 2010 (PAHO)—The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is pleased to present the translation into Spanish of the book Environmental Health: From Global to Local, whose editor is Dr. Howard Frumkin, current Director of the National Center for Environmental Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.This…
Washington, D.C. March 25, 2010 (PAHO) — Latin America and the Caribbean as a region have made impressive gains in the battle against tuberculosis in the last decade, reducing deaths and illnesses by some 70 percent. Yet many individual countries need to expand their efforts if they are to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of cutting…
Partnership will give countries of the Americas access to online training and resources in evidence-based health care and policymakingWashington, D.C. March 24, 2010 (PAHO)—Health researchers and others working in the health field now have access to online learning opportunities to improve research skills and make the most of research evidence by…
Santiago, Chile, 4 March 2010 (PAHO) — PAHO / WHO has coordinated the donation of vaccines against hepatitis A by the pharmaceutical industry and other countries in the region. The efforts were a response to a call from the authorities of the Ministry of Health of Chile, given that immunization of those affected by the earthquake is one of the…
Washington, D.C. — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and partner agencies of the United Nations System are supporting an urgent humanitarian appeal for international funds to help halt a deadly wave of food insecurity and acute malnutrition affecting some 136,000 families in drought-stricken areas of Guatemala.The humanitarian appeal,…