Washington, D.C., April 14, 2025 (PAHO)— The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is launching the Digital Literacy Program for Health Sector Personnel, a virtual initiative aimed at strengthening the digital skills of health workers across the Americas and supporting efforts to improve access to and quality of care through the use of emerging…
Washington D.C., April 7, 2025 (PAHO) – On World Health Day 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has warned that while the region of the Americas has progressed towards reducing maternal mortality, challenges remain, requiring urgent efforts to ensure all women have access to quality maternal health care.According to the United…
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, April 7, 2025 (PANAFTOSA - PAHO) – Two out of three cattle in South America are currently located in foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)-free zones where vaccination is not practiced. Across the entire Americas, more than 80% of cattle are in this condition, bringing the region closer to the eradication of the disease.This…
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 April 2025, (PAHO/WHO) - As part of its commitment to address the prolonged humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) sent a new shipment of almost three tons of essential medicines and health supplies from its Strategic Reserve in Panama, which arrived in the country today.The shipment…
Washington, D.C., March 31, 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a new epidemiological alert in response to an increase in yellow fever cases across the Americas during the first months of 2025. The number of confirmed human cases as of March 22 has more than doubled compared to the total recorded in all of 2024,…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 27 March 2025 (PAHO/WHO) - In an ambitious move to combat mother-to-child transmission of diseases like HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas disease, 15 Caribbean nations are coming together under a project funded by the India-United Nations Development Partnership Fund and implemented by the Pan American Health…
Brasilia, March 26, 2025 (PAHO) - While premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, has dropped in the Americas over the past decade, from 15.2% in 2010 to 14% in 2021, just five countries of the Region are on track to reach the global target of a 25% reduction in premature mortality from…
Washington D.C., March 25, 2025 (PAHO) — Over the past two years, countries of the Americas have made significant progress towards eliminating trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. These advances are part of the Initiative for the Elimination of Trachoma in the Americas, led by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)…
Washington D.C. 24 March 2025 (PAHO) – In the Region of the Americas, cases of tuberculosis (TB) have increased 20% over the past decade, and deaths have also shown an upward trend. On World Tuberculosis Day, celebrated each year on 24 March, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa has called on countries of the Region…