The Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health of the Pan American Health Organization is calling for proposals for awareness projects to reduce illicit trade of tobacco products and increase tobacco taxation. The objective of this competitive proposal is to raise awareness on the importance of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit…
In May 2014, the World Health Assembly adopted the historic resolution (WHA 67.15) "Strengthening the role of the health systems in addressing violence, in particular against women and girls and against children". The resolution requests the WHO Director-General to develop a global plan of action to strengthen the role of health systems in…
Washington, D.C., 01 March 2015 (PAHO) - USAID sponsored a course for more than 40 delegates from the Ministries of Health and Finance from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador and Peru to learn about strengthening health systems and implementing Universal Health Coverage in March, 2015. Within the framework…
22 April 2015, Haiti—Training on the management of obstetric hemorrhage was held from April 13-15 2015 in the South Department of Haiti as part of the PAHO/WHO project "Zero Maternal Deaths by Hemorrhage."
This training was implemented by the PAHO/WHO team in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and FLASOG (Federación…
The Municipal Health Secretariat Curitiba, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education and their partners are looking forward to hosting this important global public health and health promotion event. 22nd IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion will take place in Curitiba, Brazil.The aim is to create a global forum where…
PAHO/WHO´s Virtual Campos for Public Health is conducting the third edition of the course "How to effectively address Noncommunicable diseases in 21st Century ", developed by the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, as part of the CARMEN School activities.
The course is targeted to NCD country managers and program managers in…
The Pan American Health Organization PAHO joins once again in 2015, and will celebrate this date in harmony with the ILO campaign Join in building a Culture of Prevention on OSH. Acknowledging the immense need for healthy, decent and productive work required by millions of people under the poverty line in the region, PAHO's commemoration…
On 31 March and 1 April, 2015, PAHO will conduct an Expert Consultation on the implementation of the Regional Plan of Action on Health in All Policies (HiAP). This exercise will serve to define concrete recommendations as to how the Regional Plan of Action on HiAP can best be operationalized within the Region of the Americas over the course of the…
USAID sponsored a course for more than 40 delegates from the Ministries of Health and Finance from the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, and Peru to learn about strengthening health systems and implementing Universal Health Coverage in March 2015.…