Washington DC, July 2024 - Since 2022, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Department of Innovation, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (IMT) and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA) collaborates technically with the Spanish Network of Health Technology Assessment Agencies and Benefits of…
Seville, Spain, June 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Department of Innovation, Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (IMT), and the Health Technology Assessment Network of the Americas (RedETSA), for which PAHO serves as the secretariat, actively participated in the HTAi 2024 meeting.This year's event focused…
The Member States of WHO at their 77th Assembly approved a new resolution on increasing availability, ethical access and oversight of transplantation of human cells, tissues and organs, initiative of Spain.Transplantation is a life-saving treatment. The latest data of 2022 from the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation indicate that…
Washington, DC, 31 July 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) hosted a regional road safety workshop to present the preliminary results of the regional report and launch the Regional Project to Strengthen Emergency Care in the Americas. This project is funded by the United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) and aims to drive…
Among adolescent girls who have been in a relationship, nearly a quarter (24%) – close to 19 million – will have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence by the time they turn 20 years old, as highlighted by a new analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO) published today in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.…
The RCC recalls that the increase in regional polio vaccination coverage in the Americas is insufficient in many countries to prevent disease outbreaksThe week of 15-19 July 2024, the city of Lima, Peru, hosted the 18th Meeting of the Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication of the Americas (RCC), with the objective of…
Washington D.C., July 26, 2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is conducting a consultation among its Member States on the draft of the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategy on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM). This consultation, aimed at gathering comments and input from national health authorities and…
Washington, DC, July 17, 2024- As part of the technical cooperation agreement signed between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the International Hospital Federation (IHF), a virtual masterclass was held focusing on the Organization's mandates, resources, and tools, which are strategic for strengthening hospitals in the development of…
Brasilia, 25 July 2024 (PAHO)— The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), through its Infectious Hazards Management Unit of the Health Emergency Department (IHM/PHE), in collaboration with the Vector Control Unit of the Communicable Diseases Department (VT/CDE), and the Brazilian Ministry of Health and experts across the Americas, organized a…