The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, called for health to be placed among the ...
Official Earthquake Panama (Update) On 22 October 2026, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published Situation Report No. 06 on the earthquake of magnitude 7 ...
Although 88% of countries surveyed have included long-term care in national legislation, policies or plans, only 15 of PAHO’s ...
Geneva / Washington, D.C. / Bridgetown, 30 October 2026 - Barbados has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV as a ...
PAHO launches regional guidance and COMAlerta digital tool to strengthen community-based early warning The new resources aim ...
Following the notification in France of the first documented case of human disease caused by Shamonda virus, Jairo Méndez ...
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has appointed Dr. Eldonna Boisson as the new ...
Members of the Network on Essential Public Health Functions (RedFESP) took part in a virtual assembly where they reviewed the ...
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Project ECHO at The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center held a ...
SummaryThis report provides the first comprehensive global assessment of within-country inequalities in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. It examines four major NCDs (cancer, ...
SummaryThis advocacy brief summarizes the findings of the World Health Organization report State of inequality: noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors, highlighting systematic inequalities in ...
In 2026, Paraguay’s Tero Tero Network trained 210 people in community-based surveillance, strengthening early warning and ...