On World Mental Health Day, October 10, WHO/PAHO launched a year-long campaign with the slogan "Depression: Let's talk"
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On World Mental Health Day, October 10, WHO/PAHO launched a year-long campaign with the slogan "Depression: Let's talk"
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New recommendations are aligned with PAHO action plan that…
Washington, October 7, 2016 (PAHO/WHO)-The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) expects an important upsurge in cholera cases in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew, given the context of flooding and the storm's impact on water and sanitation infrastructure, which is still being assessed after Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti.
More than 300 people,…
Commission chaired by Sir Michael Marmot is researching the root…
Washington, D.C., 6 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - With damage assessments from Hurricane Matthew still underway in the Caribbean, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) deployed field teams even before the storm affected areas in Haiti, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica, and is preparing for a possible cholera upsurge…
They affect primarily people living in extreme poverty and other situations of vulnerability, especially women and children
Washington, D.C., 6 October 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The new publication Infectious Neglected Diseases: Success Stories and Innovation to Reach the Neediest presents best practices in the countries of the Americas aimed at…
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is mobilizing staff to…
Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Ministers of health from throughout the Americas agreed on a series of actions to improve access to and use of high-cost medicines and health technologies, and to protect the health of migrants, during the 55th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
High-cost medicines…
Washington, D.C., 30 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ended today with the approval of a series of new strategies and plans of action for eliminating HIV/AIDS, malaria and neglected infectious diseases and responding more effectively to Zika and other arboviruses. …