New evidence published by recipients of a Joint Small Grants Programme funded by HRP* and TDR**, with support from WHO’s Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO), highlights the valuable contribution of research conducted inside an emerging epidemic. It also emphasizes the critical importance of strengthening community-based research capacity in…
Washington DC, 28 February 2020 (PAHO) - The Pan American Health Organization has published a report on the current social security situation and challenges in Central America and the Dominican Republic (in Spanish only: Seguridad social en Centroamérica y República Dominicana: situación actual y desafíos) in collaboration with the…
Preventive chemotherapy is one of the tools used for the control of cysticercosis, by treating taeniasis, caused by the parasite Taenia solium (also known as the pork tapeworm). In its adult tapeworm form, T. solium infection in humans is known as taeniasis. Taeniasis can be treated with anthelmintic drugs.
However, it was not clear the…
Mexico includes the HEARTS initiative within the framework of health system reform
Mexico City, 18 February 2020 - As part of its efforts to strengthen primary health care, Mexico has officially joined the HEARTS initiative. Promoted by the Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the initiative aims to…
Port of Spain, 18 February 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – On the occasion of International Childhood Cancer Day, pediatric cancer experts and health authorities convened by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and together with the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, are calling for stepped-up action to…
Washington DC., 27 January 2020 - On World Leprosy Day we are renewing our focus on accelerating towards a leprosy-free world and to ensuring this age-old disease is no longer a source of shame and anxiety, stigma and prejudice, but a challenge all of us can unite around to overcome. The theme of this year’s World Leprosy Day, Ending…
This supplement presents evidence from research teams in Brazil, Colombia and Peru, supported through the HRP/TDR/PAHO Joint Small Grants Program and with technical support by PAHO throughout the implementation of these projects. The results of these studies highlight the valuable contribution of research conducted inside an emerging epidemic.…
Washington, DC,17 January 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – The Departments of Health Systems and Services, Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health, and the Caribbean Sub-Regional Programme and, through the Virtual Campus of Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization’s (VCPH/PAHO), delivered four English-language courses in 2019 on epidemiology…
Kingston, 16 January 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - In the framework of the Health Information Systems initiative, launched by PAHO in collaboration with the Caribbean countries in 2016, several partners agreed to work together to strengthen national initiatives to "leave no one behind".
"It is essential to work together with the countries, taking into…