In September 2018 WHO announced a new effort – the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer – with the aim of reaching at least a 60% survival rate for children with cancer by 2030, thereby saving an additional one million lives. This new target represents a doubling of the global cure rate for children with cancer.The aims of the Initiative are…
Stand highlights the importance of effective communication in achieving positive health outcomes and wellbeing
Washington, D.C., 25 September 2018 (PAHO/WHO) – Communication for Health, or C4H, refers to the communication principles and processes that inform and influence the behavior and attitudes necessary to achieve positive public health…
According to PAHO, in the Region of the Americas, cases of rabies in humans fell from 258 to 13 between 1983 and 2018, and cases in dogs fell from 11,276 to 163 in the same period.
Brasilia, Brazil, 25 September 2019 (PAHO/WHO)—Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are closer than ever to achieving the elimination of human deaths by rabies…
WHO’s Global status report on alcohol and health 2018 presents a comprehensive picture of alcohol consumption and the disease burden attributable to alcohol worldwide. It also describes what countries are doing to reduce this burden.
Washington D.C, 21 September 2018 (PAHO/WHO) – More than 3 million people died as a result of harmful use of…
Washington, DC, 07 August 2018 (PAHO/WHO) - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has renewed its status as a Non-State Actor (NSA) in Official Relations with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This will allow ASHA and PAHO to continue their collaboration to strengthen the knowledge and building the capacity of Latin…
"Mobilizing Latin American and Caribbean actors with a view to spurring enhanced national ambition to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals"The Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week 2018 (20-23 August, in Montevideo, Uruguay) will be a key international summit to drive climate action forward across the…
The Caribbean nation is taking important steps to protect the health of its babies.Dr. Marlon Timothy spends sleepless nights in the Neonatal Unit of Trinidad and Tobago's Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH). Despite being sleep deprived, he looks enthusiast, not exhausted; he knows that his and his team's task of decreasing child mortality is…
"Statistics have never been so good!" exclaims Linda Rampersad, who has worked as a midwife in the Maternity Department of the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) over the last 13 years. In fact, during the last six months, no woman has died during pregnancy or while giving birth at this institution, nor at any other institution in Trinidad and…
After facing stagnating adolescent pregnancy rates, the Dominican Republic is applying a new approach that focuses on equity to make sure no adolescents - including those most at risk of becoming pregnant - are left out of programs designed to prevent teen pregnancy.
This new approach comes as a response to the new global health agenda,…