In its role as the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for International Nursing Development in Primary Health Care, the College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago in collaboration with PAHO has co-organized a publication titled Perspectives and Contributions of Nursing to the Promotion of Universal Health that highlights more than…
The Reference Network (RefNet), coordinated by BIREME, is the result of an activity in the context of Cooperation Term 95 (TC95) with the Brazil Health Ministry and the Pan-American Health Organization, more precisely in the activity aimed at supporting managers, researchers, and health professionals in elaborating compex search strategies to…
GENEVA, 11 May 2020, Statement - Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct tobacco use and around 1.2 million are due to non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for many respiratory infections and increases the severity…
Hygiene, access to safe water and sanitation are factors that contribute to the elimination of communicable diseases, including neglected infectious diseases. This document presents a set of tools to help countries and programs to combat neglected infectious diseases, to collaborate with the community related to water, sanitation and hygiene…
Celebrated every year on 5 May, Hand Hygiene Day mobilizes people around the world to increase adherence to hand hygiene in health care facilities, thus protecting health care workers and patients from infections.
This year, the campaign theme “SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands”, is aligned with the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and aims to…
Washington, D.C. April 29, 2020. (PAHO/WHO).
PAHO has launched an online course on “Control of taeniasis and cysticercosis caused by Taenia solium.” The virtual class is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization to support the surveillance, control, and elimination of Neglected Infectious Diseases in the Americas.
This self-study…
Washington DC, 23 April 2020 (PAHO)—The Pan American Health Organization held a virtual meeting on COVID-19 regulatory update to present and discuss the document “Reliance for Emergency Use Authorization of Medicines and Other Health Technologies in a Pandemic (e.g. COVID-19)”. More than 110 participants, including delegates from the World Health…
Washington, DC, 25 April 2020 (PAHO)—On 24 April 2020, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) held a webinar on the State of the World's Nursing Report to present the main results of the report about the nursing situation in the Region of the Americas.More than 240 participants attended the webinar, including nurses from the Ministries of…
Washington, DC, 27 April 2020 (PAHO)— The PAHO Strategic Fund has supported Member States in increasing access to COVID-19 diagnostic kits through pooled procurement, securing over 500,000 RT-PCR tests (noted as the gold standard for diagnosing the disease). Another 1.5 million tests will be delivered over the next month, and an additional 8…