A new WHO Certification Programme for Trans Fat Elimination aims to recognize countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans-fatty acids (TFA) from their national food supplies. This is the first-ever certification programme that will recognize countries for their efforts to eliminate one of the main risk factors for…
While COVID-19 causes disruptions and challenges in health systems around the world, the Health Commissions of the Parliaments of the Americas together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) work hard to make digital transformation a sustainable reality in the post-pandemic.
Buenos Aires, November 13, 2020 (PAHO). Parliamentarians of…
Washington DC, 3 November, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - With more than nine hundred people enrolled, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched the course for the implementation and strengthening of Programs for Optimizing Antimicrobials (PROA, in Spanish), aimed at leaders, managers and health professionals who develop tasks related to the use of…
Georgetown, Guyana, 6 November 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—To eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health problem in Guyana and obtain validation of elimination by 2025, Mass Drug Administration (MDA) has been implemented as the main elimination strategy in 2019 in the eight (8) filaria endemic Regions – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10. The 2020 LF MDA…
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2020 (PAHO)—COVID-19 is having a detrimental impact on urban population health. The virus has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. At the same time, public health and social measures to prevent virus transmission are having wider health consequences. Loss of employment and income has exacerbated food insecurity,…
Washington, D.C., 28 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) -To strengthen the skills of human resources in health networks for the address of psychoactive substance use disorders, especially in primary care and non-specialized services, PAHO has launched an online training initiative in conjunction with national authorities.
The training is directed to health…
When COVID-19 began to spread in Bogotá, community-based physical activity programmes in public spaces such as the Recreovía (Ciclovía) and Hábitos y Estilos de Vida Saludable were temporarily suspended. In response, the Colombian Ministry of Sports and the District Institute of Sports and Recreation (IDRD) launched The Ruta del Movimiento – an…
Bogotá’s Ciclovías (bike lanes) have been extended to prevent the spread COVID-19 by further reducing crowding and person-to-person contact on the city’s public transport network. They are also helping to reduce congestion and improve traffic safety.
Responding to transport and mobility challenges
In early 2020 Bogotá’s mayor added 84…
Today's world faces different challenges in terms of humanitarian crises, in which we will see more natural disasters as a result of climate change, displacement of human groups due to armed crises in various nations, epidemics and pandemics, among others. In these settings, adults and children suffer from a wide variety of mental, neurological,…