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The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the resilience of robust health systems around the world. Recognizing the heavy toll that malaria exacts on vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the region’s fragile health infrastructure, WHO underlines the critical importance of sustaining…
March, 2020. - Cuban psychologists and psychiatrists have started a series of virtual psychotherapy groups, called “PsicoGrupos”, to reach patients who could not otherwise access psychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This initiative has proved particularly timely, as social support is a key component of mental health.
The Cuban…
Washington DC, 25 March 2020 (PAHO)- The Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) launched the Spanish version of three online courses to provide information and guidance to countries in the Americas in the response to the novel coronavirus.
The courses were already…
Washington, D.C., 19 March 2020 [PAHO] - The Director of the Department of Health Systems and Services at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), James Fitzgerald, met with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Haiti, Joseph Jouthe, during a technical mission to Haiti, from 17-19 March, to strengthen PAHO´s support in the…
Prepared by The UNAIDS Cosponsors Regional Group (UCRG) for Latin America and the Caribbean.
March, 20, 2020- The HIV community and response have much to offer to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preparedness and resiliency. Having community-led organizations, such as people living with HIV (PLHIV) networks, engaged at the planning and…
Peru has just taken a further step that will help to protect public health from the harms of tobacco continuing on a path which started a few years back to discourage their consumption and avert related health care costs through taxation. A modification of the methodology to calculate the amount-specific excise tax on cigarettes has been…
Quito, Ecuador - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through the HEARTS Initiative, advocates the use of validated electronic devices in order to improve the accuracy of blood pressure (BP) measurement, as it is key to the correct diagnosis and control of hypertension. To this end, it is necessary to have a regulatory framework…
Twelve research projects have been awarded grants following a 2019 call for applications to conduct research on sexual and reproductive health and rights, infectious diseases of poverty and the health systems response linked to the current mass migration in the Americas.
Mass migration is an intensifying reality in the region of the Americas. In…
The 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety convened 1700 delegates from around 140 countries, including more than 70 ministers and vice-ministers and heads of international agencies, civil society organizations, foundations and private companies. Representatives from 12 countries of the Region of the Americas attended the Conference,…