Paramaribo, 4 December 2019 (PAHO/WHO) - With the support of a PAHO/WHO grant for Information Systems for Health (IS4H), a new solar-powered, web-based patient management information system has been developed by Medical Mission (MM). This NGO has provided for the past decades primary health services to very remote communities in the Suriname…
Además de la malaria, el país tiene el potencial de eliminar la filariasis linfática y la esquistosomiasis
Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 22 de noviembre 2019. República Dominicana tiene el potencial de eliminar la malaria, la filariasis linfática, la esquistosomiasis y alcanzar grandes progresos en torno a la eliminación de la…
Washington, D.C., 15 November 2019—After 53 years of operation, the Pan American Health Organization's Expanded Textbook and Instructional Materials Program (PALTEX) concludes its functions on 31 October 2019, as established in the Resolution CD57.R15 adopted by Member States at the PAHO’s 57th. Directing Council.
For more than half a century,…
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) hosted a Brown Bag Lunch (BBL) titled “Harnessing economics to improve multisectoral Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) action – Investment Cases and Taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean” at its headquarters in Washington, DC on September 11, 2019. Speakers included Rachel Nugent of RTI International and…
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…
Washington, D.C., 31 August 2019 (PAHO/WHO) – On August 22 and 23, PAHO´s Workers’ Health Program in the Unit on Health Promotion and Social Determinants/FPL held the 2019 Meeting of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers (CCs) on Occupational Health in Washington, DC. Representatives from 14 Collaborating Centers, 4 candidate institutions and a…