Washington DC, 22 May 2020 (PAHO) —Representatives of the National Regulatory Authorities (NRA) from countries in the Region participated at the VI Regulatory Update meeting organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to discuss the challenges for the regulation of ventilators in the context of COVID-19. More than 80 participants from…
En su rol de Centro Colaborador de la OPS/OMS en Gestión del Conocimiento, el Departamento de Informática en Salud, del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, está colaborando con la OPS en el desarrollo y diseminación de Hojas Informativas sobre el uso de tecnologías de información en apoyo a la respuesta mundial contra la pandemia. Asimismo, está…
In its role as the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for International Nursing Development in Primary Health Care, the College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago in collaboration with PAHO has co-organized a publication titled Perspectives and Contributions of Nursing to the Promotion of Universal Health that highlights more than…
The Reference Network (RefNet), coordinated by BIREME, is the result of an activity in the context of Cooperation Term 95 (TC95) with the Brazil Health Ministry and the Pan-American Health Organization, more precisely in the activity aimed at supporting managers, researchers, and health professionals in elaborating compex search strategies to…
GENEVA, 11 May 2020, Statement - Tobacco kills more than 8 million people globally every year. More than 7 million of these deaths are from direct tobacco use and around 1.2 million are due to non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.
Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for many respiratory infections and increases the severity…
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…