The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the Epilepsy Society of the Caribbean (ESC), the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE), organized a regional workshop (28 February - 1 March) to strengthen country capacity to deliver evidence based care to people with epilepsy…
With the purpose of revising the subregional drug demand reduction strategy, directors of the national drug councils of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago gathered at a meeting organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, 18…
This report, which covers the period December 2015 – December 2016, outlines the response of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas and presents some of the milestones achieved during this period.…
Washington, D.C., March 19, 2018 (PAHO/WHO) - A strong political commitment and public policies involving all sectors of government are needed to address noncommunicable diseases, which take 5.2 million lives a year and involve enormous costs for the countries of the Americas, said Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health…
Journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean were invited to participate in a webinar to examine challenges and best practices when reporting on suicide. Dr. Dan Reidenberg, Executive Director of Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) made a presentation on the subject. The seminar took place on the occasion of World Health Day, April 7…
The Indian Law Society is pleased to announce admissions for the eleventh batch of the International Diploma in Mental Health, Human Rights and Law for the academic year 2018-19.
The Diploma, launched in October 2008, is a result of collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, and the Indian Law Society (ILS) Pune, India. The…
PAHO-WHO Bahamas & Turks and Caicos Country Office, hosted a train the trainers session on Mental Health and the High School Literacy Program, December 11-13, 2017. The session highlighted the need to build teachers' skills on mental disorders and the early identification of mental health issues that may affect the students'…
The Ministry of Health of Bolivia, through the National Program for the Prevention and Treatment of Addictions, with PAHO/WHO support, organized a training workshop in Cochabamba, December 13-5, for implementing WHO's mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings.
It was attended…
A group of international experts was convened by the Mental Health and Substance Use Unit of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington D.C., December 5-6, 2017, to address deinstitutionalization.The objectives were to identify strategies, experiences and suggestions for promoting and enhancing this process in the Americas, and to detect…