01/Feb/2019
January 31, 2019
The Health Systems and Services team meets in Guyana to review focus countries roadmaps towards Universal Health
Senior staff from the Department of Health Systems and Services, Washington D.C. traveled to the PAHO Office in Georgetown, Guyana where they met with the Minister of Public Health, Honorable Volda Lawrence, to discuss the country’s roadmap towards Universal Health. Read more
PAHO launches a list of priority medical...
08/Jan/2019
December 28, 2018
PAHO urges collective action to ensure that everyone, everywhere can access health care
“Unite for universal health: now is the time for collective action” was the theme for International Universal Health Day 2018, which took place on 12 December. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) joined the commemorations with a call to work together to find solutions that will ensure that all people have access to quality health...
10/Dec/2018
December 4, 2018
PAHO and Ministers of Health from the Americas identified a series of actions that seek to improve the health of migrants in the Region
Ministers of health from the Americas and the Secretariat of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) identified a series of actions that seek to improve the response of health systems to the mass migration that is occurring in the Region. Read more
The Strategic Fund supports the MERCOSUR...
08/Nov/2018
November 1, 2018
New global commitment to Primary Health Care for all at Astana Conference
Countries around the globe today signed the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen health systems based on primary health care as an essential step toward achieving universal health. The Declaration of Astana reaffirms the historic 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the first time world leaders committed to primary health care. Read more
‘Health is a right...
26/Oct/2018
Declaration of Astana charts course to achieve universal health coverage, 40 years since declaration on primary health care in Alma-Ata
Astana, Kazakhstan, 25 October 2018 (WHO/PAHO) – Countries around the globe today signed the Declaration of Astana, vowing to strengthen their primary health care systems as an essential step toward achieving universal health coverage. The Declaration of Astana reaffirms the historic 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, the first time world leaders...
09/Oct/2018
October 3, 2018
PAHO Director’s Annual Report: helping countries build health systems based on primary health care
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has been working with its member countries to advance the goal of “universal health” ever since ministers of health from throughout the Americas collectively endorsed that goal in 2014. Read more
New PAHO plan aims to reduce a shortage of nearly 800,000 health workers in the Region of the...
28/Sep/2018
The Region’s health ministers agree to guidelines for the development of policies and plans for human resources, better worker distribution and retention, and training for family and community health specialists.
Washington, D.C., 26 September 2018 (PAHO/WHO)—Health authorities from the countries and territories of the Region of the Americas yesterday agreed on a new plan to reduce a shortfall of 800,000 health workers needed to meet the current needs of the Region’s health...
07/Sep/2018
September 5, 2018
Subregional Dialogue on Health Financing
PAHO held a Subregional Dialogue on Health Financing in the Caribbean, on Aug. 28-29, 2018 in Barbados, as part of the CARICOM Member States commitment to advance towards Universal Health. The Dialogue focused on health financing arrangements and creating fiscal space for health. Read more
Regional workshop seeks to strengthen national supply systems management in six countries...
04/Sep/2018
The Virtual Campus for Public Health has a new visual interface for the Regional Portal.
New features:
More simple, attractive, fast, comfortable and friendly for navigation.
Adaptable to all devices.
A new section were you will find courses grouped according to thematic areas.
A new category to find subregional and country courses.
Possibility for the user to change to the previous theme.
01/Aug/2018
July 31, 2018
The Regional Base of Health Technology Assessment Reports in Americas reaches 1,000 reports
The Regional Base of Health Technology Assessment Reports in the Americas (BRISA) reached 1,000 reports produced by member organizations of the Regional Network of Health Technology Assessments for the Americas (RedETSA). Read more
Interprogrammatic teams from priority countries learn about the Assessment of Essential Conditions tool for...
