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05/10/2024 - In the year in which it completes 20 years as a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for the Education of Health Technicians, the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/Fiocruz) promoted, on April 16, the webinar “Profile and educational trajectories of health technicians who take courses at CVSP/Opas”. Held in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the event aims to present the platform and methodology used in a research that analyzes the trajectory and experience of health technician users who have already taken courses at the Virtual Campus of PAHO Public Health through a characterization of the sociodemographic and work profile of these workers and a survey of the courses most frequently offered by health technicians at the regional level. -
04/18/2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently presented a series of recommendations at G20 events in Brazil to strengthen equity in access to digital health, expand innovation and production of health technologies, tackle antimicrobial resistance, increase health investment and ensure greater retention of health workforce in the countries and territories of the Americas. -
04/10/2024 - The Virtual Campus of Public Health of the PAHO plays a fundamental role in training health technicians throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Understanding the experience of these professionals within the platform is essential to strengthen capabilities and improve health system response. The EPSJV invites you to the Webinar Series on the Virtual Campus in Public Health of PAHO/WHO and the training of health technicians, which will have as its first event: Profile and educational trajectories of health technicians in the CVSP/PAHO -
04/05/2024 - This year's theme was chosen to defend the right of all people, everywhere, to have access to quality health services, education and information, as well as clean water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent environmental and working conditions and freedom from discrimination. -
03/25/2024 - On the eve of World Tuberculosis Day (24 March), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling countries to intensify the fight against this preventable and curable disease. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, surpassed only by COVID-19. -
03/07/2024 - New country, policy and program commitments, plus nearly US$ 600 million in new funding, at first-ever global forum offer a chance to save hundreds of thousands of lives by 2030. -
02/19/2024 - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) convened countries from the Americas for a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the progress of negotiations on a possible future global pandemic agreement. The objective of the two-day meeting, which concluded on Friday (02/16), was to review the key components of the preliminary document to be presented in May for approval by the World Health Assembly (WHA). -
02/05/2024 - Global cancer cases are expected to rise around 77 per cent by the middle of the century, UN health authorities said on Thursday, highlighting the growing burden of the disease. -
01/16/2024 - The head of the health agency warns of a 42% increase in hospitalizations and 62% in ICU admissions in December due to meetings during the festive period and the JN.1 variant. It urges governments to ensure access to tests, treatments and vaccines, and for people to continue taking precautions, such as wearing masks and ventilating indoor spaces. -
12/09/2023 - The Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/Fiocruz) held on December 4 the international seminar "Clinical Simulation in the training of Health Technicians in the Ibero-American context: challenges and perspectives", which brought together experts and members of the Ibero-American Network for the Education of Health Technicians (RIETS). The event is part of a project presented in a call by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and approved in July of this year.