Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, 19 April 2016. Thirty Obstetricians and Midwives were trained to use live-saving procedures and devices to manage Post-Partum Haemorrahage (PPH) i.e. bleeding after delivering a baby, a leading cause of maternal deaths world-wide and in Trinidad and Tobago. Participants were also trained in the early…
Washington, DC, February 23, 2016 (PAHO / WHO) - The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne , met yesterday with the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and Brazilian authorities to learn about the actions taken by Brazil in…
Decades-long mass treatment by ivermectin of affected populations accelerated interruption of transmission.
14 October 2015 | Geneva – Mexico has become the third country in the world to be declared free of onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease that mainly affects poor people in rural areas. The announcement came days before the 2015 Nobel Prize…
Port-au-Prince, August 10, 2015 (PAHO/WHO) - A training workshop on Malaria Elimination was held from 20 to 24 July 2015 in Port-au-Prince for central and departmental level technical staff of the Ministry of Health (MSPP) notably the National Malaria Program (PNCM) and directorates of epidemiology, research and laboratory (DELR and LNSP).…
World Breastfeeding Week 2015, 1-7 August: PAHO/WHO recommends measures including paid maternity leave, flexible and reduced work hours, and accommodations to make breastfeeding easy at work
Washington, D.C., 31 July 2015 (PAHO/WHO) - Employers who support breastfeeding by their female employees are not only taking the ethical high road,…
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, July 10, 2015 - The second module of the One Health Leadership Series, launched in November 2014, was held in Runaway Bay, Jamaica on June 23rd to 26th. Thirty two leaders from the health, agriculture and environment sectors of twelve Caribbean countries took part in the module, with the theme “…
Washington DC-Geneva- Cuba today became the first country in the world to receive validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) that it has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
"Eliminating transmission of a virus is one of the greatest public health achievements possible," said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General…
Washington, D.C., 29 April 2015 (PAHO/WHO) - The Americas region has become the first in the world to be declared free of endemic transmission of rubella, a contagious viral disease that can cause multiple birth defects as well as fetal death when contracted by women during pregnancy.
This achievement culminates a 15-year effort that involved…
In the last decade, the number of people receiving life-saving treatment has nearly quadrupled in the region
Washington, D.C., 27 November 2014 (PAHO/WHO) — Nearly 600,000 more people today than in 2003 are receiving antiretroviral treatment for HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to data released by the Pan American Health…