Washington, DC, 20 April 2018 (PAHO/WHO)-The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization coordinated the session "Discussions on universal pooling in the Americas", at the World Bank Third Annual Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Financing Forum: Greater Equity for Better Health and Financial Protection. The Forum took place on April…
The title for this year's conference is "Challenges faced in the implementation of brief interventions in diverse settings, contexts and population groups". The Conference's overarching goal is to present, summarize and debate about the latest…The "International Diploma of Mental Health in Deinstitutionalization:principles and practices for community inclusion" was developed by the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES) in Argentina,through its Faculty of Psychology and Social Sciences and UCES Virtual Academic Unit.It is directed by doctors Hugo Cohen and Graciela Natella,…
This video gathers testimonies of users as well as interviews with different actors that participated in the "Care of severe mental health disorders in El Tambo, Cauca" project. It was developed by PAHO/WHO Colombia, December 2017, to give visibility to the results of this care and rehabilitation model and to accompany the document that…
PAHO/WHO hosted in Panama City, 13-15 March, a three-day training of trainers and supervisors workshop on the new version 2.0 of the mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders (mhGAP-IG), which was launched in 2017. The objectives pursued included familiarizing participants with the new version of the Guide and…
On 5 February, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Organization of American States (OAS) renewed a memorandum of understanding to work together in the improvement of countries' capacities to respond to the needs of people affected by the drug problem with a public health perspective.The agreement lays out collaboration on policies…
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the Epilepsy Society of the Caribbean (ESC), the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE), organized a regional workshop (28 February - 1 March) to strengthen country capacity to deliver evidence based care to people with epilepsy…
With the purpose of revising the subregional drug demand reduction strategy, directors of the national drug councils of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago gathered at a meeting organized by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, 18…
This report, which covers the period December 2015 – December 2016, outlines the response of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas and presents some of the milestones achieved during this period.…