St. George's, Grenada. The SIDS Initiative has a vision that by 2030, all health systems in SIDS will be resilient to climate variability and change. PAHO, jointly with WHO, will convene the Caribbean meeting of the geographically dispersed III Global Conference on Health and Climate Change: Special Focus on Small Island Developing…
Washington D.C., 10 October 2019 - The Plan of Action for Strengthening Information Systems for Health 2019-2023 was approved today by the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau / Pan American Health Organization. The plan was supported by all countries of the Region, and 18 country representatives to the meeting…
On 23 September, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a special Climate Action Summit in New York to call for greater ambition and action on climate change in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The same processes that cause climate change contribute to a significant portion of the air pollution that leads to the…
On September 9th,2019, the Latin American Parliamentary Network for Road Safety was formed, as a result of the efforts promoted by PAHO / WHO to strengthen and harmonize legislation on health and road safety. The Network seeks to share and promote innovative legislative actions that have proven useful in reducing injuries and deaths due to traffic…
The Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2019 will be a key international summit to drive climate action forward across the region. LACCW will be an umbrella for a series of climate-related events focused on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) implementation – challenges and opportunities, the Sustainable Development Goals, and Global…
6 August 2019 — Brazil has been working to improve the control of sand flea disease (tungiasis). Since last year, the Ministry of Health’s Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health (SESAI) has been imple-menting activities in vulnerable areas to reduce hyperinfestations of sand fleas and serious cases of the disease. This work has been…
The tobacco epidemic is one of the greatest threats to public health the world has ever faced, accounting for over 8 million deaths each year, including 1 million in the…
Washington, DC, 9 July 2019 (PAHO) - From 9 to 11 July 2019, representatives from Ministries of Finance working on tobacco tax policy design and from Ministries of Health working on tobacco control, from 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as researchers working on the economics of tobacco control in the Region, participate in a…
Washington DC, 25 June 2019 (PAHO) – The rates of alcohol disorders among women are higher in the Region of the Americas than in any other region of the world. A new virtual course from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will provide health care workers with the technical skills they need to identify and address alcohol consumption in…