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12/11/2014 - When the Ebola crisis eventually begins to diminish, and the journalists and camera crews withdraw, public interest fades and political pressure on leaders subsides, the people of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea will be left to rebuild their lives, their communities and their countries. Understanding the problems that led to the escalation of the Ebola crisis is essential in order for these countries to emerge safely from it and to prevent another crisis in the future. -
11/19/2014 - The G20 issued a joint statement on the crisis, saying all members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the outbreak and address its medium-term economic and humanitarian costs. Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Helen Szoke said a lack of urgency and specific commitments in the statement meant there was a real risk a U.N. target to treat 70 percent of cases by Dec. 1 will not be met. -
11/19/2014 - How can protection to intellectual property limit the right to health? Which factors have hindered the access to health in South America? How can be we bring balance to the dilemma of promoting health technological innovation whilst guaranteeing access for the population? In order to discuss these issues, which are in the agenda of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS) invited the political scientist, former WHO consultant and professor at the George Washington University (USA) Susan K. Sell for a special conference that will be held in Buenos Aires on December 3rd at 10 am (GMT -3). -
11/19/2014 - The World health Organization (WHO) and the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), with its partners, are making palpable progress in steering a direction for a contemporary human resources for health agenda. Leading the WHO strategy development efforts, Jim Campbell, Executive Director GHWA & Director of the Health Workforce Department, WHO, said “there is a resurgent community on HRH who are better informed on what must be in Global Strategy and a contemporary agenda in support of sustainable workforce solutions, including the need for its governance and financing”. A global strategy relevant to the post-2015 development agenda will inspire a HRH movement of multi sectoral action and implementation at the national and global level. -
11/13/2014 - Healthcare, cross national researches, regulation and the reforms of the sector were the main issues addressed during the conference “Challenges for universal health systems in the 21st century”, presented last Wednesday (12) by Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Marmor came to Rio de Janeiro after an invitation from the South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS) to open the workshop “Strengthening the State, Regulating the Market: Challenges for UNASUR national health systems”. -
11/03/2014 - While the World Health Organization debates the strategy for universal health coverage – based on the extension of the service package – with its member states, the South American Institute of Government in Health (ISAGS), an organism part of UNASUR (Union of the South American Nations), receives the visit of Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus Yale University and a defender of universal health systems. On November 12, at the Institute’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Marmor will present the conference “Challenges for universal health systems on the 21st century”, which will be broadcasted online at 11am (GMT-3) in English through the link tedmarmor.isags-unasur.orgwith simultaneous translation for Spanish and Portuguese. -
10/29/2014 - WHO convened a meeting with high-ranking government representatives from Ebola-affected countries and development partners, civil society, regulatory agencies, vaccine manufacturers and funding agencies yesterday to discuss and agree on how to fast track testing and deployment of vaccines in sufficient numbers to impact the Ebola epidemic. -
10/24/2014 - The Regional Program on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Latin American Forum of Health Research Ethics Committees (FLACEIS) invite you to participate in a series of virtual seminars to discuss cases in WHO’s Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research (published by PAHO in Spanish). The hour-long seminars will take place the fourth Tuesday of each month. Different research ethics experts in the region will be in charged of the presentations, which will focus on specific cases in the book. The sessions will be in Spanish and no translation will be provided. -
10/23/2014 - Some 65,000 people take their own lives in the Americas each year—more than 7 per hour—according to a report released today by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO). The report, Suicide mortality in the Americas, is based on data from 48 countries and territories in the Western Hemisphere. It shows that suicide is a significant health problem and one of the region’s leading preventable causes of death. -
10/20/2014 - The sixth session of the Conference of the parties (COP6) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) concluded today in Moscow. Several landmark decisions were adopted in the course of the six-day session, regarded as one of the most successful in the WHO FCTC’s history. In her opening speech, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said that "as implementation of the Framework Convention reaches new heights, the tobacco industry fights back, harder and through every possible channel, no matter how devious those channels and practices are".