More 'climate-friendly' investments in transport, energy and housing could help prevent significant noncommunicable disease, WHO review finds.
Washington, D.C., 14 June 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - Greener investments in transport, housing and household energy policies can help prevent significant cardiovascular and chronic respiratory disease, obesity-…
The rapid aging of Latin America's population over the…
Despite the growing efforts of public and social health to…Washington, D.C., 20 May 2011 (PAHO) - TDR, the international partnership for research and scientific collaboration on diseases of poverty, is the winner of the 2011 Gates Award for Global Health, the world's largest public health prize. The announcement came this week during the 64th World Health Assembly.Based at the World Health Organization (…
Washington , D.C., 20 May 2011 (PAHO) - Three tobacco control alliances-from Chile, Peru and around the world-will be honored by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) as part of this year's World No Tobacco Day campaign.
The three groups have all worked to support the development, adoption and implementation…
Geneva, 17 May 2011 (PAHO/WHO) - Durante el segundo día de la 64ª Asamblea Mundial de la Salud, los discursos de Bill Gates, co director de la Fundación Bill y Melissa Gates, y de la primera ministra de Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, marcaron la agenda.
En su discurso, Gates llamó a los líderes de los gobiernos a incrementar su inversión en vacunas y…
Haiti has finalized a plan to ensure immunization against the…
On May 17th, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) held…
Health is rarely the sole responsibility of the health sector…