Regional Stories
Urban-to-rural migration is the main factor in the population growth of the municipality of Sucre, Bolivia.
In Santo Domingo, the Friends Against Childhood Cancer Foundation (Fundación de Amigos Contra el Cáncer Infantil - FACCI), provides treatment, diagnosis, funds to provide nurses, and has a team that attends 24/7 to pediatric patients.
Erin Brown creates space for inclusion within health care services and the workplace
— Washington, D.C., 2020 —
Following the call from the WHO Director General in 2018, in August 2020, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for elimination of cervical cancer and adopting a strategy to make it happen.
The Global Strategy outlines the following threshold: we will have eliminated cervical cancer as a public health problem when all countries…
Six delegations from PAHO and the Guatemalan Ministry of Health toured the most affected areas of the country to assess the damage and health needs.
Under current COVID-19 guidance, all communities across Colombia are obliged to cremate people when they die, but an exception is made for the indigenous people of Alta Guajira. The Wayúu people’s beliefs and cultural practices around death are so important, that the Government now allows them to bury their dead underground or in a…
