"Laughing for good living, embracing for healing and planting to endure" was the preventive message of the Integration Festival that involved pioneers, medical students, health professionals and the entire population of Matanzas in the central activity for World Health Day.Havana, 12 May 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - In her opening remarks, Dr. Carmen Borrego…
This two-day capacity building and strategic planning workshop (April 25-26) was organized in a collaborative effort between PAHO/WHO's Mental Health and Substance Use Unit, from the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, and the Healthy Life Course Unit, from the Family, Gender and Life Course Department.
The workshop was attended by 40…
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2017.- Representatives of national programs on noncommunicable diseases (NDCs) from 18 countries in the Non-Latin Caribbean attended a Country Capacity Survey (CCS) Workshop on April 26 and 27 to review the global and regional Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) commitments and the Accountability Framework on NCDs.…
Washington, DC, April 27, 2017 (PAHO)- Since the countries of the Americas started celebrating Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) in 2003, this initiative, coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), has helped attain many achievements. Here are 15 of them.
1. The Americas as a leader in vaccination
The Region of the…
Panama City, 04 April 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - Dozens of families and individuals took part in a walk organized by the Ministry of Health on April 3, which marked the beginning of World Health Day commemorating activities in Panama. …
Health authorities from 16 Caribbean countries, and representatives from PAHO's programs of NCDs and of medicines and technologies, gathered on 22-23 February 2017 to discuss the barriers and solutions to improve quality, availability and equitable access to NCD medicines in the Caribbean. The aim was to support Caribbean countries to achieve the…
Organized by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the UN Agency for Migration, and the Together for Girls Partnership (which includes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -CDC-, USAID, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UN Women, UNFPA, the Government of Canada and PAHO/WHO itself), the "Regional meeting on prevention and response to…
Experts in mental health education from several Latin American countries gathered in Madrid, December 7-8 to explore ways of implementing mhGAP training in the context of mental health education. The meeting was hosted by the Department of Psychiatry of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health Services…
Washington, D.C., 28 February 2017 (PAHO/WHO) - Depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide each year. It is one of the leading causes of disability in the Americas, where there remains a substantial treatment gap driven by factors such as poor access to healthcare, inadequate financial investment, and social stigma.…