Yesterday the Ministry of Health (MOH) in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) launched the national expansion of the Hearts Initiative which aims to better assist healthcare professionals in the prevention and early detection of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension within primary health…
GTR promotes campaign in the countries
Montevideo, June 2, 2023. Zero Maternal Deaths. Prevent the preventable with a multisectoral and equity perspective, is the name of the webinar that marks the end of the first part of the campaign of the Regional Task Force to Reduce Maternal Mortality (GTR, for its acronym in Spanish). In the next…
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, June 1, 2023 (PAHO) - The Association of Councilwomen and Mayors of Bolivia (ACOBOL) has pledged to join the initiatives of Healthy Municipalities and Age-Friendly Cities and Communities led by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) at the regional and global levels. These initiatives are…
Kingston, Jamaica, 1 June 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – This week, six more Caribbean professionals graduated from the year-long University of the West Indies (UWI) Climate Change and Health Leaders Fellowship Training Program. They are Dr Ayanna Alexander and Jenise Tyson from Trinidad and Tobago, Linnees Green-Baker and Dr Nicole Dawkins-Wright of…
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, May 31, 2023 - Approximately 45 Bolivian health professionals from the country's nine departments, from second and third level health facilities, Departmental Health Services (SEDES) and the Ministry of Health and Sports (MSyD) participated in the workshop to validate the new Maternal Morbidity and Mortality…
São Paulo, May 29, 2023. Dr. Sebastián García Saisó, director of the Evidence and Intelligence for Health Action Department of the Pan American Health Organization (EIH/PAHO), and Mr. Marcelo D’Agostino, head of the Information Systems and Digital Health unit (IS/EIH/PAHO) were in São Paulo and Brasília between March 27th and 30th to…
Belize City, Belize, May 26, 2023 (PAHO) - With the priority of improving the national health system, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Belize have strengthened their partnership by signing the 2023-2027 PAHO/WHO Country Cooperation Strategy.
The strategic lines of action focus on addressing health…
Asunción, 24 May 2023. - The analysis of the situation of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality was presented; as well as the strategies and actions implemented to improve maternal and neonatal health at the national level, during the Ordinary Meeting of the "Neonatal Alliance and the National Mobilisation for the Reduction of Maternal and…
Montevideo, May 23, 2023. In the framework of the campaign Zero Maternal Deaths. Prevent the prevetable, promoted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) together with other organisations that make up the Interagency Working Group for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR, for its acronym in Spanish), a document is published with…