Washington, DC, June 20, 2024 (PAHO) – Latin America and the Caribbean has reported 9.3 million cases of dengue so far this year, twice the number of cases reported in all of 2023. However, according to the latest epidemiological update issued this week by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the fatality rate remains below…
Washington, DC, June 18, 2024 (PAHO) - The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Doctor Jarbas Barbosa, issued an urgent call to action to reduce maternal mortality in the Americas. In 2020, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced one maternal death every hour, reversing two decades of progress in maternal health indicators…
Washington D.C. 14 June 2024 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) brought together policy-makers, civil society and researchers this week to discuss advances and gaps in suicide prevention research, as well as to exchange experiences on evidence-based…
June 13, 2024 (PAHO/WHO)- On the occasion of World Blood Donor Day, celebrated every June 14, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is encouraging more people to volunteer to donate blood to help increase the availability of essential blood supplies in the Region.Voluntary, unpaid blood donation is the foundation of a safe and sufficient…
Asunción, Paraguay, 12 June 2024 (PAHO)- As part of his first official visit to Paraguay, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Jarbas Barbosa, met today with the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, to discuss priority health issues for the country.During the meeting, the PAHO Director highlighted the new…
Salvador, Brazil, 6 June 2024 (PAHO/WHO) – Experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in the 3rd G20 Health Working Group to discuss the importance of promoting health equity and advancing the 2030 agenda.Discussions at the meeting, which took place from 2 to 6 June in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, underscored the need…
Washington, DC, June 5, 2024 – Under the umbrella of the Alliance for Primary Health Care (A4PHC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) convened a two-day interactive event, the Caribbean Health Financing Forum, this week to explore avenues for strengthening…
Geneva, 1 June 2024 — In an historic development, the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of its 194 member countries, today agreed a package of critical amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), and made concrete commitments to completing negotiations on a global pandemic agreement within a year, at the latest.…
Geneva, Switzerland, 1 June 2024 (PAHO) - Building on the lessons from COVID-19, countries from the Americas strongly engaged in decisions to better prepare against present and future health challenges, including pandemics, climate change and growing antibiotic resistance, and to promote universal health coverage at the global health gathering.The…