Nassau, 14 June 2023 (PAHO): The Pan American Health Organization and the Ministry of Health and Wellness of The Bahamas conducted a highly participatory workshop for the development of an Action Plan resulting from the evaluation and strengthening of the Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF). Through the finalization of this workshop, The…
San Salvador, 9 June 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of Health of El Salvador presented the Action Plan resulted from the process of evaluation and strengthening of the Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF). More than 100 technicians and experts representing 57 health sector institutions…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a new report on access to morphine for medical use, which describes how the global distribution of morphine, as a vital pain medicine, is unequal and does not fulfil the medical need. The report, titled “Left behind in pain”, highlights the problems in access to this essential medicine…
Washington, D.C., 14 June 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The Collaborating Centre (CC) for Research and Training in Environmental Epidemiology at the Dirección de Salud Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico supported PAHO/WHO in developing a PAHO Virtual Campus Training Course on Environmental Epidemiology. The objective of the course…
The eight best experiences selected will receive PAHO's support to produce an Expanded Report on their initiative.
Washington, D.C., June 12 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is launching a call to collect successful experiences on integrating workers' healthcare at the primary health care in the Region of the Americas. This…
Washington, DC, June 9, 2023 (PAHO) - The High-Level Commission on Mental Health and COVID-19 of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), led by Her Excellency Mrs. Epsy Campbell Barr, former Vice President of Costa Rica, and Ambassador Nestor Mendez, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, developed a report with…
The Quadripartite announces the rebranding of the global annual awareness campaign on antimicrobial resistance.
Geneva, 6 June 2023 (WHO) - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major global threat across human, animal,…
Washington DC, 2 June 2023 (PAHO)-- The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) participated in the webinar “Healthcare service disruptions during COVID-19 in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries,” the second in the seminar series on Forgone Health Care in Low and Middle-Income Countries, organized by the World…
Washington, DC, May 29, 2023 (PAHO)- While the percentage of the population using tobacco in the Americas declined from 28% to 16.3% between 2000 and 2020, novel products and misleading information from the tobacco industry, especially targeting young people, threaten to undo those gains. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the Director…