São Paulo, 18 November 2024 (BIREME/PAHO/WHO) - João Paulo Souza, Director of BIREME/PAHO/WHO, was recently recognized among the 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in a study conducted by Stanford University and published by Elsevier. The global analysis assessed the impact of 6.8 million researchers from various fields, considering…
Georgetown, Guyana, 15 November 2024 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has been challenged by its stakeholders and Caribbean member states representatives to ensure that its new Caribbean Subregional Cooperation Strategy (SCS) 2025-2029, is responsive and practical and when implemented, impactful.During the opening of a…
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 12 November 2024 (PAHO/WHO) – Regional and national technical health experts recently gathered in Trinidad and Tobago to collaborate on the development of the PAHO/WHO Caribbean Subregional Cooperation Strategy (SCS). The SCS aims to strengthen regional health priorities, address pressing health…
Buenos Aires, November 12, 2024 (PAHO/WHO). Authorities from the National Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) met today at the Health Ministry's headquarters to advance joint actions seeking to ensure access to safe, effective, and low-cost medicines and health technologies.In this regard, during the meeting chaired…
Port-of-Spain, 6 November, 2024 (PAHO) - The PAHO/WHO Trinidad and Tobago Country Office has successfully concluded a dynamic two-day national stakeholder consultation in Trinidad and Tobago for the Country Cooperation Strategy 2025-2030 (CCS), bringing together key voices to collaboratively shape the nation's health priorities for the coming…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 7 NOVEMBER 2024- The Ministry of Health, with technical support from PAHO/WHO, conducted training sessions in Pharmacovigilance aimed at health professionals from health facilities across Guyana in Region 5 in October 2024. Twenty-eight participants attended the training, including physicians, nurses, medexes, pharmacists, and…
Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis, 6 November 2024 (PAHO/WHO) – During the 38th Caribbean Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) Managers' meeting held in St Kitts and Nevis from October 28-30, Jamaica won the Henry C Smith award for most improved immunization coverage in 2023, while the inaugural Beryl Irons award went to Grenada for…
Montevideo, 6 November 2024. Self-care interventions are among the most promising approaches to address the challenges of accessing affordable, acceptable and quality health services today. By recognizing individuals as active agents in managing their health, self-care interventions in sexual and reproductive health offer opportunities to…
Montevideo, 6 November 2024. In response to the need to accelerate the reduction of maternal mortality in the Americas, especially after the setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) convened a regional workshop in Bogota, Colombia, on 21-22 October. This event focused on the need to improve the…