A new survey by the Pan American Health Organization/World…
A new survey by the Pan American Health Organization/World…
Havana, 21 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Delegations from over 30 countries agreed today to promote a series of priority measures for the prevention and control of arboviruses, a group of mosquito-borne viruses that includes the Zika, dengue, and chikungunya virus. These measures involve strengthening epidemiological surveillance systems for the…
The director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO…
At Havana meeting, PAHO director urges consensus on prevention and control of arboviruses through integrated surveillance, laboratory networks, clinical case management and vector control
Washington, D.C., 21 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Health leaders from countries of the Americas are expected to agree on a series of actions to monitor,…
Washington, DC,October 21, 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Region of the Americas is celebrating 25 years with no cases of wild poliovirus. The last case was detected on August 23, 1991, in Peru. The countries of the region, supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), were able to eliminate polio and maintain the…
La Habana, 20 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Director of PAHO/WHO, Carissa F. Etienne, met today with the Minister of Health of Cuba, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and the Secretary of Health of Human Services of the US, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, in a historic moment for both countries.
All three are attending a regional meeting in Havana, Cuba to…
Partnership will support technical cooperation addressing health priorities including tuberculosis, malaria, neglected infectious diseases, maternal and neonatal health, and strengthening of health systems over the next five years.
Washington, D.C., 17 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has…
The Pan American Health…12 October 2016, Port au Prince, Haiti (PAHO/WHO)—With more than 1.3 million Haitians affected by Hurricane Matthew, acute diarrheal diseases including cholera threaten parts of the population, and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has set up field operations with Haiti's Ministry of Health in Jeremie and…