The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne,…
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne,…
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa F.…
PAHO/WHO verifies elimination of the disease, congratulates Colombia for its achievement
Bogotá / Washington DC, 29 July 2013 (PAHO/WHO) — Colombia has been verified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having eliminated onchocerciasis (known as "river blindness"), thus becoming the first country in the world to achieve this goal.
In an…
Created by PAHO/WHO and the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica, the game aims at increasing awareness on dengue and other vector-borne diseases, in addition to promoting community actions to keep the environment free of breeding sites
San José, Costa Rica, 26 July 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (…
The Cuban-American singer, two-time Grammy award-winner Jon Secada, whose…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Global…
Viral hepatitis affects some 424 million people…Researchers from Colombia and Peru will be honored for work on noncommunicable diseases at September 2013 Cochrane Colloquium
Washington, D.C., 22 July 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - Researchers from Colombia and Peru have been selected as winners of the 2013 PAHO-Ibero-American Cochrane Network Award, whose theme was "Prevention of chronic noncommunicable…
Guatemala City, July 19, 2013. The President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, have signed the Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) for the period 2013-2017.
According to Dr. Guadalupe Verdejo, PAHO/WHO representative in…