Guyana and Suriname have announced they will carry out new studies to confirm whether anti-malarial treatments are losing their effectiveness in their populations, as suggested by preliminary data collected by the two countries.…
More than 23,500 pedestrians were killed on the roads in…
More than 4,600 health facilities are participants in PAHO/WHO's "Save lives: clean your hands" campaign
Washington, D.C., 6 May 2013 (PAHO/WHO) — Nearly 1,200 hospitals and other health facilities in Latin America and the Caribbean and more than 3,400 in North America are calling on patients and family members to join healthcare workers in…
A special report published in the latest issue of the Pan American…
Washington, D.C., 30 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - The deadline to participate in the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization´s contest for the best photographs and videos that demonstrate complementary child feeding in the Americas from 6 months to 2 years has been extended to May 31.
The contest, whose main objective is to draw…
Some 770 people fall ill with an…Port-of-Prince, Haiti, 27 April 2012 (PAHO/WHO) - In her first official visit to Haiti, on the eve of the launch of the 11th Vaccination Week in the Americas, PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienee met with First Lady Sophia Martelly and Minister of Health Florence Guillaume of Haiti to analyze technical cooperation priorities in the country…
Washington, D.C., 26 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) — Countries and territories participating in this year's Vaccination Week in the Americas obtained most of their vaccines through the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Revolving Fund, a cooperation mechanism that facilitates bulk purchases of vaccines and immunization…
Top health authorities from Belize and Guatemala joined the director of the Pan…