{mosimage}The Government of Canada and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) signed an agreement today to strengthen their joint action on global and regional health and development issues.Geneva…{mosimage}The Government of Canada and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) signed an agreement today to strengthen their joint action on global and regional health and development issues.Geneva…I wish to congratulate the Council of the District of Columbia for its approval of the new D.C. Healthy Schools Act, a groundbreaking law that sets an example for cities, states, and countries throughout the Americas.
This commendable legislation aims to improve the nutritional quality of foods in D.C. schools and to cultivate healthy habits…
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The 2010 Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health…
Senior officials from countries in the Region of the Americas…
Washington, D.C., event highlights progress, continuing challengesWASHINGTON, DC (April 2010) - Efforts of countries and key stakeholders in the battle against malaria have contributed to a 53 percent reduction in the disease burden in the Americas since 2000. Yet more than 200 million people continue to be at risk of contracting the disease, and…
In Latin America and the Caribbean, a worker is injured on the job every 36…
Washington, D.C., April 21, 2010 (PAHO) — Forty-four countries and territories of the Western Hemisphere will reach out to an estimated 42 million children and adults with vaccines during the Pan American Health Organization's 8th Annual Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) on April 24 to May 1.
Tens of thousands of health workers and…