Novel products, misleading information threaten to undo decades of gains against tobacco use
World No Tobacco Day 2023 Novel products, misleading information threaten to undo decades of gains against tobacco use screenshot To watch video click HERE Washington, DC, May 29, 2023 (PAHO)- While the percentage of the population using tobacco in the Americas…
PAHO Director welcomes U.S. Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine dose-sharing plan
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2021 (PAHO) Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne today thanked the United States Government for its commitment to a COVID-19 vaccine dose-sharing plan through COVAX. “The actions announced today by the White House…
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COVID-19 is inflicting “devastating†impacts on women, PAHO Director asserts
Director calls for counteracting potential rollback of gains in women’s access to family planning and in reducing maternal mortality. Washington, D.C., May 26, 2021 (PAHO) –Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa F. Etienne warned that continued disruption of women’s…
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Eradicating hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030 is becoming increasingly unlikely
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UN FAO and PAHO warn that hunger has increased in six countries and now affects 2.4…
PAHO Encourages Caribbean Countries to Tax Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
By PAHO/WHO Bridgetown (PAHO / WHO) – Taxes on tobacco, alcoholic and sweetened beverages can help reduce consumption of these products and generate income that can be used to improve the health of the Caribbean population. The Pan American Health…
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Network of laboratories in the Americas seeks to strengthen the diagnosis of mosquito-borne disease
Panama, May 18, 2017 (PAHO / WHO)- The Arbovirus Diagnostic Laboratories Network (RELDA), coordinated by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), is working to strengthen the diagnosis of mosquito-borne diseases to ensure a timely response to outbreaks and epidemics caused…
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PAHO urges stepping up nine measures to end AIDS by 2030
Accelerating response in combined prevention, early detection and access to treatment could end the epidemic as a public health problem Washington, DC, November 29, 2016 (PAHO/WHO) – “Take the challenge. End AIDS” is the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) campaign…
