La Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS), creada por BIREME hace 23 años, viene presentando a la Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Información en Ciencias de la Salud un modelo de gestión de la información y el conocimiento en el área de la salud. Su principal objetivo es dar visibilidad y amplio acceso al conocimiento científico y técnico en salud…
The beta version of the 2021 edition of the DeCS/MeSH vocabulary has just been released, and the definitive version is scheduled for July of this year. The main new features are related to the addition of 287 new descriptors to this vocabulary. The Supplementary Concept Records (SCR) terms that reach a certain number of citations are promoted to…
On July 5, the Anniversary Ceremony of the Universidad Señor de Sipán, a Peruvian institution that this year celebrates its twenty-second anniversary, was held. The event's Magisterial Conference, held online, entitled “La información en salud: un pilar fundamental para la formación universitária” was performed by BIREME's director, Diego González…
Belize City, Belize, July 6, 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Government of Canada donated 25 portable hand-held pulse oximeters to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 Unit.
The donation of pulse oximeters is part of PAHO’s ongoing technical support to facilitate the…
Guyana, 29 June, 2021 - To protect the Adolescents and Youths in Guyana, the Ministry of Health, the Adolescent Health Unit, and Guyana PAHO/WHO implemented the Adolescent Health and Wellbeing project. The Susan Buffet Foundation funded this project. Several schools in Linden District, Region 10, were sensitized on the Coronavirus Disease and…
Montevideo, June 29, 2021, CLAP/ PAHO- Two new virtual courses have been hosted in the Virtual Campus of Public Health developed by the Latin American Center for Perinatology, Women's Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP). One on family planning, aimed at health professionals at the first level of care, self-administered and comprehensive on the…
Venezuela has started the pilot plan for the implementation of the Perinatal Information System (SIP), as part of the Concerted Strategy for the Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality, implemented since 2019 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Ministry of the People's Power for Health (MPPS).
In June 2021, with the…
Bridgetown, Barbados June 23, 2021 (PAHO) - On June 22, 2021, two containers with a shipment of 924,000 medical masks, a donation from the Federal Republic of Germany arrived at the PAHO / WHO Barbados Office for distribution to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries to support covid-19 efforts.
The delivery is part of Germany's donation of…
Jamaica’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic received a boost in the form of 6000 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to identify Variants of Concern of COVID-19 (VoC). The medical testing supplies were procured by the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization as it ramps up support in the region to identify, isolate and…