The health of humans and animals is vitally interlinked. Thus, there is a shared responsibility and synergic potential for collaboration between public and animal health sectors to deal with potential infectious threats at the animal-human interface.
And so, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization for Animal…
On 3rd December 2019 the University of Trinidad and Tobago launched Cardio-Val, a mobile health application and website that is geared towards the secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases among Trinbagonians. Cardio-Val was pioneered and developed by the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and funded under PAHO’s IS4H Initiative.PAHO/…
The 5th Session of the Scientific Committee (SC) was held on November 28 and 29, and it was attended by experts from Brazil (Information Technology), Colombia (Education and Knowledge Management), Costa Rica (Scientific Research), Cuba (Management Information) and Mexico (Scientific Communication). The Jamaican expert (Georgiana Gordon-…
PAHO/WHO Bahamas and partners observed Universal Children’s Day with special emphasis on the health-related rights of the child.
Nassau, 23 November 2019 (PAHO/WHO) - On Saturday, November 23rd, 2019, The Pan American Health Organization in conjunction with the Urban Renewal Commission of the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development…
PAHO/WHO Bahamas and partners observed Universal Children’s Day with special emphasis on the health-related rights of the child.
On Saturday, November 23rd, 2019, The Pan American Health Organization in conjunction with the Urban Renewal Commission of the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, and the Healthy Bahamas Coalition…
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…
São Paulo, 22 November 2019 (PAHO) - In the framework of the I International Symposium of Integrative Pediatrics, held in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, on November 22 and 23, the Representative of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in Brazil, Dr. Socorro Gross Galiano and the President of the Brazilian Academic Consortium…
In October 2018, implementation of the Plan for Immediate Post-Obstetric Contraception and Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) began, an initiative that has led to 30.882 medical interventions, including the placement of 15,265 intrauterine devices and 4,892 implants, the administration of 3,616 ampoules of medroxyprogesterone, the dispensing of 5,520…
The theme of the World Diabetes Day 2018 and 2019 is “The Family and Diabetes”. The date is celebrated each year on November 14, and became an official United Nations date in 1991, with the support of the World Health Organization, in response to growing concerns about the increased health threat posed by Diabetes. The biennial duration of the…