Created by PAHO/WHO and the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica, the game aims at increasing awareness on dengue and other vector-borne diseases, in addition to promoting community actions to keep the environment free of breeding sites
San José, Costa Rica, 26 July 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (…
The Cuban-American singer, two-time Grammy award-winner Jon Secada, whose…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the Global…
Viral hepatitis affects some 424 million people…Researchers from Colombia and Peru will be honored for work on noncommunicable diseases at September 2013 Cochrane Colloquium
Washington, D.C., 22 July 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - Researchers from Colombia and Peru have been selected as winners of the 2013 PAHO-Ibero-American Cochrane Network Award, whose theme was "Prevention of chronic noncommunicable…
Guatemala City, July 19, 2013. The President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, and the Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, have signed the Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) for the period 2013-2017.
According to Dr. Guadalupe Verdejo, PAHO/WHO representative in…
Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, July 18, 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - Guatemala is one of the most advanced countries in Latin America in the implementation of networks of breast- milk banks. This initiative, supported by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), seeks to reduce neonatal infant mortality and child malnutrition by…
Lyon, France, 18 July 2013(IARC-WHO)- A new study by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in partnership with Costa Rican investigators and the United States National Cancer Institute (NCI), shows for the first time that the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, which is used to prevent cervical cancer,…
17 July 2013 (WHO)—An Emergency Committee convened by WHO's Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) to assess the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) situation today unanimously decided that conditions for a public health emergency of international concern have not yet been met. Director-General Dr.…