Resource for parents, teachers and health professionals follows hugely successful first edition
News release of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
A new book published today aims to help children stay hopeful and positive during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Washington, D.C., September 24, 2021 - The 59th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) approved the resolution "One Health": a comprehensive approach to address health threats at the human-animal-environment interface.
The "One Health" approach policy seeks to promote the coordination and collaboration of the human,…
Experts from the Region discuss how to improve the quality of care in the delivery of health services.
Washington, DC, September 22, 2021 (PAHO) - As part of the webinar series on the Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF), organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and to celebrate this year's World Patient Safety Day, a…
Kingston, Jamaica - September 14, 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has bolstered the National Public Health Laboratory’s COVID-19 testing capacity with its donation of 30,000 antigen test kits and six new antigen test readers. The latest donation brings PAHO’s total donation of antigen test kits to over one hundred…
September 2, 2021 - Only a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families, according to the WHO’s ‘Global status report on the public health response to dementia’, released today.
10.3 million people living with Dementia in the Americas
According to the…
Since 2019, the Mexican Health Secretariat, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization, UNAM’s Faculty of Psychology and the Psychiatric Care Services, have been working on the implementation of WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) with the aim of strengthening the first level of care and offering greater mental health…
A series of training activities, primarily aimed at educators and health workers, were organized in Ecuador by the Ministry of Health, higher education institutions and the local PAHO/WHO office.
Since May, a training on Psychological First Aid (PAP) has been delivered for 610 tutors and teachers from sixty one higher education institutions. Its…
Scholarships awarded to 12 participants to complete a 4-module course in antimicrobial resistance in Colombia and Ecuador
Washington, D.C., 02 August 2021 (PAHO/WHO) – 12 professionals from 10 epidemiological surveillance and research institutions in Colombia and Ecuador received a grant to participate in the Structured Operational Research…
With a background in nursing, midwifery and public health, but also with studies on Latin America, U.S. midwife Peg Marshall worked for many years in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) where she served as Technical Advisor for Maternal and Child Health for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). For years, Peg was USAID'…