Santiago de Chile, 26 July 2012 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of Health and Agriculture in the Americas are meeting today and tomorrow to discuss the challenges and opportunities to meet the growing demand for safe food, accessible and sustainable. They want to make the production of food sustainable with environment and safe for the health of…
Salvador, Bahia, 7 June 2012 (PAHO/WHO) - Representatives of several international organizations pledged this week to promote investments in water and sanitation infrastructure as key steps toward the elimination of cholera from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The pledges were made during the launch of a new Regional Coalition on Water and…
Washington, DC, 11 May 2022 (PAHO/WHO) - The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, received this May 10 the award of the Order "Merit for Distinguished Service" in the Grade of Grand Officer, issued by the government of Peru.
The resolution recognizes that Dr. Roses…
Asuncion, May 10, 2012 - The President of the Republic of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, attended the opening of the 39th Meeting of the South American Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (COSALFA), at the CONMEBOL Convention Center. The opening ceremony was also attended by Agriculture Minister Dr. Enzo Cardozo, Dr. Marcos Espinal…
Washington, D.C., 20 April, 2012 (PAHO/WHO) - More than a half-dozen Latin American celebrities will join forces with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) next week to promote the 10th annual Vaccination Week in the Americas and the first-ever World Immunization Week, on April 21—28.
The celebrities, many…
Researchers find high incidence rates and deaths in first-ever analysis of the disease impacts in Latin America
Buenos Aires, March 20, 2012 (PAHO/WHO)—Today, Latin American researchers and global health leaders revealed preliminary results from the first-ever study to estimate the burden and costs of meningococcal disease in the…
Bogotá, Colombia, 16 November 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - Colombia has become the first country in the Western Hemisphere to eliminate onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness) within its national borders, according to an announcement made by Colombian health authorities at the 21st Inter-American Conference on Onchocerciasis in Bogotá last week…
Buenos Aires, 10 February 2011 (PAHO/WHO).- "We can't analyze the neglected diseases without linking them to the living conditions of the population," said the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses, during a seminar organized by the Ministry of Health of Argentina highlighting the creation of Inmet, the…
Port-au-Prince, 31 January 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - At least 22 people have become ill and 18 have died in two Haitian communities in a case of suspected methanol poisoning in the Arcahaie commune, in Haiti's Ouest Department (province).
PAHO/WHO received an alert from Haiti's Ministry of Health (MSPP) on January 25 that 10 people had died suddenly…