1 June, 2022
PAHO Director urges greater investments in primary care to achieve universal health
Achieving universal health requires greater investments in primary health care, financial mechanisms that guarantee access to...
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Fri, 05/13/2022 - 11:01
3 May, 2022
PAHO Director calls for immunization gaps to be closed for all vaccines, including COVID-19
In 2020, 2.7 million children in the Americas did not receive the essential vaccines needed to keep them healthy due to...
Wed, 04/13/2022 - 12:45
31 March, 2022
Health system recovery and resilience must be top of the agenda at 2022 Summit of the Americas, PAHO Director says
In the run-up to this year’s Summit of the Americas, Dr. Carissa F. Etienne...
Wed, 04/13/2022 - 10:36
2 March, 2022
PAHO launches 120th Anniversary campaign
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) kicks off its anniversary campaign to celebrate 120 years of active work promoting health and wellbeing throughout...
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31 January, 2022
PAHO calls for countries to prioritize rapid tests for those with COVID-19 symptoms
With COVID-19 surging throughout the Americas and demand for diagnostics higher than ever, the Pan American...
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Panama, 13 September 2021 (OPS)- The Caribbean Node of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Virtual Campus for Public Health launched two new tutor-based virtual courses on tobacco control.
The first course, "Developing Tobacco Control Legislation in the Caribbean", aims to enhance capacity for...
Fri, 09/10/2021 - 16:53
Washington DC, 12 de marzo del 2021 (OPS)- La Dirección Nacional de Control de Enfermedades Inmunoprevenibles (DiCEI) del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, el nodo argentino del Campus Virtual de Salud Pública/ Dirección de Talento Humano, ambos del Ministerio de salud, y la representación de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) en Argentina lanzaron el curso virtual sobre Campaña de Vacunación contra SARS-CoV2 que buscó capacitar a los recursos humanos para enfrentar exitosamente los desafíos que plantea la estrategia de vacunación en contexto de pandemia. Más de 9900 personas ya han comenzado a cursar esta iniciativa en línea que está próxima a finalizar.
El curso es de autoaprendizaje, cada participante puede gestionar su proceso de formación regulando sus tiempos,...
