Washington, D.C., 14 November 2011 (PAHO) - November 11 marks the 87th anniversary of the Pan American Sanitary Code. Signed in Havana, Cuba, at the 7th Pan American Sanitary Conference in 1924, the code defined the functions and duties of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (secretariat of the Pan American Health Organization) and established…
Funding for and organization of mental health services are…
Latin America and the Caribbean have higher levels of…
The Pan American Health Organization Caribbean HIV Office has developed a training curriculum on Men's Health,…
The agreement was signed on 26 October 2011 by the Director of the Pan…
Washington, D.C., 3 November 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - For more than 100 years, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) has been the leading non-governmental "voice of public health" in a country known for its commitment to universal health coverage, said James Chauvin, director of policy for the CPHA, during a Nov. 3 presentation at the…
A number of countries in the Americas have launched…
Strengthening the leadership capacity of the World Health Organization (WHO) must be the top priority of…
Dr. Jon Andrus, PAHO's Deputy Director, spoke at the annual meeting of the…