29 Nov 2021
Washington, D.C. October 27th, 2021 (PAHO) Guyana is one of the four countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) where Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) is still endemic and a major public health problem. Although the government of Guyana has made major efforts to eliminate LF as a public health problem in the past, the last 4 years have been…
29 Nov 2021
Washington DC, November 27, 2021 (PAHO) - From 23-15 November, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in the XXI Meeting of the Ibero-American Network-Council of donor and transplant organizations (known in Spanish as RCIDT), organized by the National Transplantation Organization of Spain (known in Spanish as ONT), a…
29 Nov 2021
Fifth meeting of the webinar series on the Essential Public Health Functions: Right to health, social participation and strengthening of the EPHF
Washington, DC, November 22, 2021 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization held a new meeting that brought together experts from different sectors to share experiences of social participation in…
26 Nov 2021
The Pan American Journal of Public Health (PAJPH), published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), announces a Call for Abstracts for an upcoming special issue on “PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centres: Celebrating the achievement of our common goals,” to be published in 2022.
This special issue will be part of the Journal’s 100-year…
17 Nov 2021
Washington DC, 16 November 2021 (PAHO) - The Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presented the Initiative to strengthen trainers’ capacity to design and manage virtual courses, during a webinar, on 16 November 2021, organized in cooperation with the University Institute Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires,…
17 Nov 2021
Washington, DC, November 17, 2021 (PAHO)- The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto signed a new three-year agreement that seeks to continue to strengthen and expand joint efforts focused on health and migration in the Region of the…
15 Nov 2021
This week the Second Meeting of the Parties (MOP2) to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products is convened. Parties to the Protocol must also be Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The number of Parties to the Protocol will soon reach 64, as the treaty enters into force in the most recent country…
12 Nov 2021
The Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has closed on November 12, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland, with an agreement to embark on an innovative multi-million-dollar financial plan to strengthen global tobacco control measures. This year, the Conference was held virtually.
A key…
2 Nov 2021
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a common language used worldwide by professionals, such as doctors and policy makers, to systematically record and report mortality and morbidity data. With the 11th edition of the ICD coming into effect globally on 1 January 2022, several PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centres (CCs) are…