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  • Declaration on Primary Health Care: Astana, 2018
    10/30/2018 - In 1978, a pivotal conference was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, bringing together health experts and world leaders to commit to health for all. Endorsed at that conference, the Declaration of Alma-Ata formed the foundation for the last 40 years of global primary health care efforts. The Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Astana, Kazakhstan in October endorsed a new declaration emphasizing the critical role of primary health care around the world. The declaration will refocus efforts on primary health care to ensure that everyone everywhere is able to enjoy the highest possible attainable standard of health.
  • First breast milk bank opens in Mozambique
    10/30/2018 - With almost 20 thousand premature births per year and an estimated neonatal mortality rate of 28 deaths per thousand births, Mozambique has taken an important step towards neonatal health. Last Friday (10/26), the first Breast Milk Bank (BMB) opened with a great party in the country, at Central Hospital Maputo. This is the second facility in Africa following the Brazilian model: Cape Verde has one BMB operating since 2011, and the second facility is under implementation process. Angola will be the next country to have a BMB in Luanda.
  • CRICS10 will take place in São Paulo (Brazil), on December 4 to 6, 2018
    10/30/2018 - The 10th edition of the Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS10) and the 7th edition of the Virtual Health Library Coordination Meeting (VHL7) will be held in São Paulo from 4 to 6 December 2018. It is expected the presence of approximately 500 participants from institutions that network with BIREME / PAHO / WHO in the development of projects, products and services that contribute to the access to scientific and technical health information in Latin American and Caribbean countries (AL & C), in addition to other regions. The theme of the congress is "Toward the reach of Agenda 2030: contributions of evidence and knowledge" and has as main thematic axes: (1) Innovation and Digital Health; (2) Information management; (3) Knowledge management; (4) Evidence-informed policies, strategies and decisions; (5) Intersectoriality; (6) Research and scientific communication; and (7) Open Science.
  • PAHO subsidizes initiatives to improve Information Systems for Health (IS4H)
    10/11/2018 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will provide grants for the implementation of initiatives to improve Information Systems for Health (IS4H) in the Americas. These initiatives should focus on improving existing health programs, strategies or policies. The call for proposals will remain open until 15 November 2018,12:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time). The application form can be downloaded at www.paho.org/ish. Instructions on how to complete the form are also available via that link. Once the application form has been completed, it should be saved as a PDF file and submitted via the website.
  • Climate changes and health: facts sheet
    10/11/2018 - Over the last 50 years, human activities – particularly the burning of fossil fuels – have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to trap additional heat in the lower atmosphere and affect the global climate.In the last 130 years, the world has warmed by approximately 0.85oC. Each of the last 3 decades has been successively warmer than any preceding decade since 1850. Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting and precipitation patterns are changing. Extreme weather events are becoming more intense and frequent.
  • Tobacco control measures are working, but too slowly in less-developed countries
    10/02/2018 - “Great progress” has been made in tackling tobacco consumption and saving lives but more needs to be done to challenge the industry’s attempts to “bypass” international regulations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (10/01). At an international meeting on tobacco control in Geneva, the WHO reported that that nearly two-thirds of the 181 States parties to the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) have developed strategies “to prevent tobacco industry interference with tobacco control policies”.
  • New PAHO plan aims to reduce a shortage of nearly 800,000 health workers in the Region of the Americas
    09/26/2018 - Health authorities from the countries and territories of the Region of the Americas on 26 September 2018 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 systems. The agreement was reached during the 56thDirecting Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The Plan of Action on Human Resources for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage 2018-2023 marks the path for the countries to have the human resources they need in order to meet the worldwide goal of universal health by 2030. The plan also aims to improve the geographical distribution and skills of human resources to reach everyone, everywhere.
  • PAHO and SESPAS to promote the dissemination of health systems and services research in the Americas
    09/24/2018 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration (SESPAS) have agreed on joint actions to promote the dissemination of scientific research on systems and services in the region of the Americas. Both organizations committed themselves to work on improving the quality and availability of such research. The cooperation agreement, signed on 5 September by the Deputy Director of PAHO, Isabella Danel, and the President of SESPAS, Dr Joan Ramon Villalbí Hereter, also seeks to bring quality research to greater  Spanish-speaking audiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain  in order to promote greater knowledge about health systems and services research. Gaceta Sanitaria is the official scientific publication of SESPAS, which will be the focus this cooperation with PAHO.
  • WHO calls for urgent action to end TB
    09/20/2018 - WHO’s 2018 Global TB Report, released in New York on September 18, calls for an unprecedented mobilization of national and international commitments. It urges political leaders gathering next week for the first-ever United Nations High-level Meeting on TB to take decisive action, building on recent moves by the leaders of India, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, and South Africa. Nearly 50 Heads of State and Government are expected to attend the meeting.
  • New global cancer data (GLOBOCAN 2018) suggests that the global cancer burden has risen to 18.1 million cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths
    09/17/2018 - More than 18 million new cases of cancer are expected this year and it’s estimated that 9.6 million people will die from various forms of the disease in 2018, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said on September 12.

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