Hygiene, access to safe water and sanitation are factors that contribute to the elimination of communicable diseases, including neglected infectious diseases. This document presents a set of tools to help countries and programs to combat neglected infectious diseases, to collaborate with the community related to water, sanitation and hygiene…
Celebrated every year on 5 May, Hand Hygiene Day mobilizes people around the world to increase adherence to hand hygiene in health care facilities, thus protecting health care workers and patients from infections.
This year, the campaign theme “SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands”, is aligned with the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and aims to…
Washington, D.C. April 29, 2020. (PAHO/WHO).
PAHO has launched an online course on “Control of taeniasis and cysticercosis caused by Taenia solium.” The virtual class is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization to support the surveillance, control, and elimination of Neglected Infectious Diseases in the Americas.
This self-study…
Washington DC, 23 April 2020 (PAHO)—The Pan American Health Organization held a virtual meeting on COVID-19 regulatory update to present and discuss the document “Reliance for Emergency Use Authorization of Medicines and Other Health Technologies in a Pandemic (e.g. COVID-19)”. More than 110 participants, including delegates from the World Health…
Washington, DC, 25 April 2020 (PAHO)—On 24 April 2020, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) held a webinar on the State of the World's Nursing Report to present the main results of the report about the nursing situation in the Region of the Americas.More than 240 participants attended the webinar, including nurses from the Ministries of…
Washington, DC, 27 April 2020 (PAHO)— The PAHO Strategic Fund has supported Member States in increasing access to COVID-19 diagnostic kits through pooled procurement, securing over 500,000 RT-PCR tests (noted as the gold standard for diagnosing the disease). Another 1.5 million tests will be delivered over the next month, and an additional 8…
In its role as WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at the School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong, staff contributed to a published article on the efficacy of face masks for seasonal human coronaviruses, influenza viruses and rhinoviruses.
[ABSTRACT] We identified seasonal human coronaviruses,…
Geneva, 04 April 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Detecting iron deficiency early during pregnancy and in young children is crucial. Iron deficiency in children under two years of age can have significant and irreversible effects on brain development. This can lead to negative consequences on learning and school performance later in life. Cognitive development…
Geneva, 31 March 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Physical inactivity has been identified as a leading risk factor for global mortality and a contributor to the rise in overweight and obesity. In 2010, WHO published Global recommendations on physical activity for health which detailed interventions for the primary prevention of noncommunicable diseases…