Washington, DC, March 16, 2023 - How to reach young people in the Peruvian Amazon with information about the Covid-19 vaccine? In Ucayali, a rural Amazonian area of Peru, young people arrived with music and colorful costumes to deliver information about the vaccine. The young people, who belong to the Mascaritas organization, participated in…
Washington DC, 16 March, 2023 (PAHO) - The Ministry of Health and Wellness of Jamaica has officially become a member of the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA), of which PAHO acts as Secretariat.
With this incorporation, RedETSA reaches 41 members from 21 countries in the Region of the Americas. Jamaica is the…
Washington DC, March 15, 2023 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) shared the advances of the last decade in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in the Region of the Americas at the International Symposium on Health Technology Assessment held on March 10, in India.
Alexandre Lemgruber, PAHO’s Health Technologies Management advisor…
Washington D.C. 8 March 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The Minister of Health of Guyana, the Honorable Dr Frank Anthony MP, recently visited PAHO Headquarters to meet with the new PAHO Director, Dr Jarbas Barbosa. Minister Anthony was also invited to a meeting organized by the Human Resources for Health Unit at the Health Systems and Services Department.…
PAHO leads preparation of national plans for COVID-19 related solid waste management in 16 countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in healthcare waste and its environmental impacts in the region as efforts to protect healthcare personnel and the general population continue.
Panama, February 28, 2023 (PAHO/OMS). The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) are holding the Regional Workshop on Waste…
Washington, DC. February 2023. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) participated in the conference "Vaccines and immunization: Challenges and perspectives for local manufacturing" as part of the program of the "VI Global Conference of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Community," organized by FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro,…
Antigua and Barbuda, February 23, 2023 (PAHO) - Within the framework of the COVID-19 Incident Management System for the emergency declared in 2020 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Antigua and Barbuda took its first steps to develop its Emergency Medical Team (EMT) to respond to health emergencies and contingencies at the…
Washington D.C., February 24, 2023 (PAHO): As a result of the technical cooperation that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has been carrying out together with the government of the Dominican Republic, an event was held in Santo Domingo in February to socialize the results of the evaluation and strengthening process of the Essential…
This article originally appeared in WHO's Monthly operational update on Health Emergencies, January 2023.
9 February 2023 — Influenced by the La Niña phenomenon, La Mojana region of Colombia is currently experiencing the longest emergency in recent years. More than 155,888 people of 38,972 households in the departments of Antioquia, Córdoba,…