Washington, D.C., March 31, 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a new epidemiological alert in response to an increase in yellow fever cases across the Americas during the first months of 2025. The number of confirmed human cases as of March 22 has more than doubled compared to the total recorded in all of 2024,…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 27 March 2025 (PAHO/WHO) - In an ambitious move to combat mother-to-child transmission of diseases like HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Chagas disease, 15 Caribbean nations are coming together under a project funded by the India-United Nations Development Partnership Fund and implemented by the Pan American Health…
Brasilia, March 26, 2025 (PAHO) - While premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, has dropped in the Americas over the past decade, from 15.2% in 2010 to 14% in 2021, just five countries of the Region are on track to reach the global target of a 25% reduction in premature mortality from…
Washington D.C., March 25, 2025 (PAHO) — Over the past two years, countries of the Americas have made significant progress towards eliminating trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. These advances are part of the Initiative for the Elimination of Trachoma in the Americas, led by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)…
Washington D.C. 24 March 2025 (PAHO) – In the Region of the Americas, cases of tuberculosis (TB) have increased 20% over the past decade, and deaths have also shown an upward trend. On World Tuberculosis Day, celebrated each year on 24 March, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa has called on countries of the Region…
Washington D.C. 18 March 2025 (PAHO) – The management of complex cardiovascular disease, specialist prenatal ultrasounds, and the diagnosis of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis can now be carried out even in the most remote parts of the Americas thanks to the launch of the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) telehealth kits. The…
Washington, DC, March 11, 2025 (PAHO) — The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, met with Albert Ramdin, newly elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), following his election during the 56th Special Session of the OAS General Assembly in Washington, D.C. Ramdin, from Suriname,…
Cuernavaca, Mexico – March 5, 2025 (PAHO) – Within the framework of the inauguration of the Mexican National Institute the Public Health’s (INSP) 20th Public Health Research Congress 2025, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, highlighted the challenges facing public health in Latin America and the…
Washington, D.C., March 4, 2025 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is working on a project with nine countries of the Americas on an initiative to strengthen actions against obesity in the region, which has the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity in the world. In the Americas, 67.5% of adults and 37.6% of children and…