Wash., DC, 26 Feb 2018 (PAHO) - As part of the efforts to promote the adoption of tobacco taxes as a tobacco control measure and foster implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Pan American Health Organization, The Secretariat of the FCTC, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, Johns Hopkins…
PAHO/WHO units of Mental Health and Substance Use and Healthy Life Course collaborated to organize a regional workshop on dementia in Santo Domingo, 15-16 October, 2017. The objectives pursued were: to present and discuss PAHO's Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Dementia in Older Persons; to discuss approaches and processes to develop…
Washington, D.C., 30 January 2018 (PAHO/WHO)- Fifty years ago, a diagnosis of childhood leukemia was virtually a death sentence, and thousands of children lost their lives in the absence of a treatment or a cure for the disease. But after years of scientific research--involving many of those same patients-treatments are now available and the…
The only drug to treat and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis
27 December 2017: Syphilis is unique among sexually transmitted diseases in that it remains curable with a single dose of penicillin (with no documented risk of resistance), formulated for this purpose as long-acting Benzathine Penicillin G (BPG). WHO estimates that…
With the technical cooperation of PAHO/WHO and UNICEF, a training of trainers workshop in "psychological first aid for vulnerable groups" was held in Vitacura, Santiago de Chile, November 20 and 21.The workshop was organized due to a need detected by the "Mental Health Technical Committee in Emergencies and Disasters," which consists of the public…
Caracas, November 1. - With the objective of strengthening the capacities of primary health care teams for early detection of mental, neurological and substance use disorders,the state mental health coordinators of…
The Central American Mental Health Network held the III Central American Conference on Mental Health and Human Rights in Panama City, November 7-10.The main objective was to strengthen the Network's…
Lima, October 30 and 31-. An important meeting to encourage the pilot implementation of a training program for caregivers of children with autismand other developmental disorders, in the context of the…The proposal to integrate the mhGAP-GI in Guatemalan faculties of medicine arises after PAHO/WHO's invitation to attend the meeting: "mhGAP training implementation in Latin American universities," which was organized by the Department of Psychiatry of the Autonomous University of Madrid, in collaboration with the National Autonomous University of…