Do you know what you think you know about leprosy?
GENEVA, Switzerland – Imagine having the doctor refuse to treat you years after you have been cured of a disease. Having a nurse step back and adamantly not touch you though you started taking antibiotics months ago. Or having your family ostracised in the community. All because you were affected…
The Dominican Republic has inaugurated the first Cancer Registry unit, located in the Department of Health Sciences of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), an important advance in the systematization of information that seeks to build an organized history of the new cases of cancer registered in the country.
This Registry is the…
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…