The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a new report on access to morphine for medical use, which describes how the global distribution of morphine, as a vital pain medicine, is unequal and does not fulfil the medical need. The report, titled “Left behind in pain”, highlights the problems in access to this essential medicine…
Washington, D.C., 14 June 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The Collaborating Centre (CC) for Research and Training in Environmental Epidemiology at the Dirección de Salud Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico supported PAHO/WHO in developing a PAHO Virtual Campus Training Course on Environmental Epidemiology. The objective of the course…
The eight best experiences selected will receive PAHO's support to produce an Expanded Report on their initiative.
Washington, D.C., June 12 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is launching a call to collect successful experiences on integrating workers' healthcare at the primary health care in the Region of the Americas. This…
Washington, DC, June 9, 2023 (PAHO) - The High-Level Commission on Mental Health and COVID-19 of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), led by Her Excellency Mrs. Epsy Campbell Barr, former Vice President of Costa Rica, and Ambassador Nestor Mendez, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States, developed a report with…
The Quadripartite announces the rebranding of the global annual awareness campaign on antimicrobial resistance.
Geneva, 6 June 2023 (WHO) - Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major global threat across human, animal,…
Washington DC, 2 June 2023 (PAHO)-- The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) participated in the webinar “Healthcare service disruptions during COVID-19 in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries,” the second in the seminar series on Forgone Health Care in Low and Middle-Income Countries, organized by the World…
Washington, DC, May 29, 2023 (PAHO)- While the percentage of the population using tobacco in the Americas declined from 28% to 16.3% between 2000 and 2020, novel products and misleading information from the tobacco industry, especially targeting young people, threaten to undo those gains. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day (31 May), the Director…
Asunción, 24 May 2023. - The analysis of the situation of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality was presented; as well as the strategies and actions implemented to improve maternal and neonatal health at the national level, during the Ordinary Meeting of the "Neonatal Alliance and the National Mobilisation for the Reduction of Maternal and…
Washington DC May 22, 2023 (PAHO) – Under the slogan “Save lives. Clean your hands”, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) celebrated World Hand Hygiene Day on May 4th with a roundtable that brought together leaders from various sectors of the health field to exchange their views and experiences on the subject.
“Every day, healthcare…