Washington DC, 6 May 2022 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has announced advances and new initiatives of the Regional Platform to Advance the Manufacturing of COVID-19 Vaccines and Other Health Technologies in the Americas. The announcement came during a webinar on strengthening production capacities to improve access to…
Reveals that good IPC programmes can reduce health care infections by 70%
Geneva, 6 May 2022 (WHO) - The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent large disease outbreaks have highlighted the extent to which health care settings can contribute to the spread of infections, harming patients, health workers and visitors, if insufficient attention is paid…
Washington DC, 6 May 2022 (PAHO) – In celebration of International Nurses Day, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged countries to collectively strengthen the nursing workforce through sustainable investment in education, jobs, leadership, professional regulation, and working conditions.
"There needs to be a strategic planning process…
1 May 2022, Mexico City.-
Mexico’s National Law of Mobility and Road Safety, passed by the country’s Senate in December 2021, marks a major step forward in the country’s efforts to reduce the stubbornly high numbers road traffic deaths and to boost equitable and sustainable access to transport services for everyone.
Despite extensive…
The second report in a series detailing exploitative marketing practices employed by US$ 55 billion baby formula industry, shows parents, particularly mothers, are being insidiously and persistently targeted online
28 April, 2022, Geneva (Switzerland).- Formula milk companies are paying social media platforms and influencers to gain…
Washington, DC, 25 April 2022 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) organized the seventh meeting of the webinar series on the essential public health functions (EPHF), focused on the training strategies developed by PAHO to strengthen the institutional capacities of countries. This initiative involves a significant number of…
From September 2022, the University of the West Indies (UWI) will welcome the first cohort for the postgraduate diploma and certificate program in Health Policy and Health Systems, created through a strategic collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
The objective of these new courses launched on Tuesday April 19, is to…
Washington DC, 18 April 2022 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has developed a tool to evaluate Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Programs in hospitals, which includes additional indicators to those proposed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) tool.
The tool will help countries and health facilities determine their level of…
Washington DC, 18 April 2022 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the University Center for Pharmacology (CUFAR)—a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center belonging to the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of La Plata, Argentina—are collaborating with countries of the Americas to record national consumption of…