Washington, D.C., June 24, 2024 (PAHO) – On the first day of its session, the Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which is being held at PAHO headquarters in Washington, D.C., from June 24 to 28, 2024, approved three key policy documents for the transformation of health systems in the Americas.Policy on Long-Term…
Washington, DC. - June 12, 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) hosted the Meeting of the National Regulatory Authorities of Regional Reference (NRAr) to discuss and analyze regulatory issues of interest, this time under the leadership of the FDA as the pro-tempore Chair of the NRAr Group. This meeting opens its doors to the…
Washington, DC, June 19, 2024 (PAHO) - Health authorities participating at the LX Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMISCA, in Spanish) met with members of the Alliance for Primary Health Care in Tela, Honduras. The objective of the meeting was to foster national-level…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 14, 2024 (PAHO) - Experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in a two-day workshop at the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV in Portuguese), located on the grounds of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim was to discuss strategies to…
The Conference will be held March 24-28, 2025 in Cartagena, Colombia.Washington, D.C., June 3, 2024 - The combined effects of ambient and household air pollution cause approximately 7 million deaths each year. 99% of the world's population breathes air that exceeds the WHO Guidelines, according to this Organization's data. It is low- and middle-…
A new guideline published today by the World Health Organization provides recommendations on measures for creating food environments that enable healthy dietary decisions. This includes fiscal policies that discourage consuming foods that contribute to unhealthy diets and encourage consuming healthier foods through subsidies and other support…
Salvador de Bahia, June 6, 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in the III Meeting of the G20 Health Working Group, where it reaffirmed its support for the initiative to create a Global Alliance for Local and Regional Production, Innovation and Access, led by this group.During PAHO's intervention, the director of the…
PAHO and countries kick off the data collection process on Violence against Children and Adolescents
14 June 2024 — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the National Data Focal Points (NDFP) from 22 countries in the Region of the Americas gathered to discuss the methodology and data collection tools available to include in the Second Global Status Report on Violence against Children and Adolescents. National-level data will be…
14 June, 2024 – Earlier this month, 63 Member States and global partners came together in Dakar, Senegal, at the World Health Organization Road to Oxygen Access meeting to discuss and agree on the critical components for developing and implementing national plans for oxygen scale-up. The co-developed template will serve as a valuable resource for…