Lima, Peru, April 16-18, 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) convened technical experts, country representatives, and stakeholders to define country priorities and explore available tools and methodologies to strengthen integrated care in the first two decades of life using a life course approach.Throughout the Regional…
Washington DC, 20 April 2024 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) supported the organization of the First International Meeting on Scientific Communication, Health and Social Impact, held from April 8 to 12 at the Faculty of Sciences of Information from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), in Spain. Scholars and researchers…
A global movement of communities, civil society groups, human and animal health professionals, scientists, agroecologists, educators, artists, and indigenous peoples' representatives has demanded urgent action on the growing threat of bacteria resistant to antibiotics and the broader Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).Targeting High-Level meeting in…
Washington D.C., 19 April 2024. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) received public health officers, policy advisors, and epidemiologists from the Ministry of Tourism and Public Health and from the Department of Public Health of Aruba to participate in a data analysis meeting to examine the results, and implications, of the STEPS survey…
Washington DC, April 18, 2024- The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) surpassed 3 million users from more than 225 countries and territories around the world."In just over 20 years, the Virtual Campus has grown exponentially and has established itself as an educational community of reference, key…
Bogota, April 5th, 2024. "This bridge has witnessed the passage of millions of migrants and refugees", said Dr. Santino Severoni, Director of the Department of Health and Migration at the World Health Organization. His words resonate as all type of vehicles cross the Simón Bolívar Bridge, a key border point between Colombia and Venezuela. In fact…
Brussels, Belgium, March 21, 2024 (OPS) - In the framework of the high-level meeting on equitable access to health technologies, high-level representatives from the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean held a dialogue to strengthen the partnership between the two regions on human development and health.The Director of the Pan…
Geneva, 27 March 2024.- Older women and women with disabilities face particular risk of abuse, yet their situation is largely hidden in most global and national violence-related data, according to two new publications released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The health agency is calling for better research across countries that will…
Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024 (PAHO)- The Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Unit (HIM) of the PAHO Health Emergencies Department (PHE) jointly with the WHO Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Hub organized a Webinar for the EIOS Community, on the Organization's experience in using the Epidemic Intelligence from Open…