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Director's Corner
    Equity and Primary Health Care
    News Release.- In the health sector, the fastest and most effective way to reduce the social gaps that affect the Region is to apply the primary care strategy, because decentralizing care and reaching out to people generate enormous benefits for individuals, families, and society as a whole. Article from Dr. Mirta Roses-Periago, Director, Pan American Health Organization.
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    PAHO in the 21st Century: Leadership and Cooperation in Public Health. PAHO's publication that presents the progress toward fulfilling the initial commitments to cooperation in public health in the period of 2003-2007 developed by the Organization to serve the Member States.Publications and reports »

    Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017. The hemisphere's top health policy authorities have launched the Health Agenda for the Americas, setting out the health priorities the governments propose to tackle over the next decade. Release »
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Safe Surgery Saves Lives
  • PAHO VIDEO
    WHO's global initiative Safe Surgery Saves Lives was launched on June 25 2008 at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. Watch video from the launch »
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Public Health Highlights
  • New issue of PAHO Today
    The latest issue of PAHO Today, the newsletter of the Pan American Health Organization, is now available online. Read it »
  • IAEA Member States and International Organizations Conclude Testing of Emergency Plans
    The World Health Organization (WHO) completed a two-day emergency radiation exercise today. This test involved a simulated accident at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant in Mexico. Read more »
  • Looking for the most active and healthy cities in Latin America and the Caribbean
    The third Active Cities, Healthy Cities contest is accepting applications. The contest will recognize cities where the urban environment facilitates healthy lifestyles. Read more »
Events
Calendar of HIV Events in Latin America and the Caribbean
PAHO News
  • PAHO Calls for End to Violence against Women
    Singer Jerry Rivera today joined forces with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to launch a new public service campaign to raise awareness of violence against women and of the need to end the widespread problem in the Americas and around the world. Read More »
  • International Day of the World's Indigenous People Highlights Health Gaps
    On the International Day of the World's Indigenous People observed today, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) experts noted that 40 percent of indigenous people in the Americas still lack access to conventional health care services. Coupled with serious issues of inequity and discrimination, this situation poses a serious obstacle in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. Read More »
  • Mental disorders in Latin America and the Caribbean Forecast to Increase
    The number of people with mental disorders in the Region of the Americas is forecast to increase from 114 million in 1990 to 176 million in 2010, according to the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Mirta Roses. Read More »
  • Food Safety Experts Agree Plan to Improve Food Safety in the Americas and Caribbean
    Urgent measures are needed across Latin America and the Caribbean to improve food safety and the availability of food, both to reduce the level of disease and death and also to make it easier to export the region's numerous food products to the rest of the world, 200 regional food-safety experts and regulators agreed today. Read More »
  • In Brasilia: First Hemispheric Meeting on Alcohol Public Policies
    Some of the world's top experts on alcohol abuse and public policy are gathered in Brazil this week to discuss ways of reducing the harmful effects of alcohol on public health in the Americas. Read More »