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04/28/2016 - Malaria initiatives that demonstrate concrete technical and programmatic changes geared towards malaria elimination and the prevention of its re-establishment are eligible to compete in this year's "Malaria Champions of the Americas" contest, which gets under way on World Malaria Day, April 25. The nomination deadline is June 20. -
04/25/2016 - Countries and territories throughout the Western Hemisphere will reach out to some 60 million children and adults during this year's Vaccination Week in the Americas, April 23-30, delivering vaccines against diseases including rubella, measles, diphtheria, mumps, whooping cough, neonatal tetanus, influenza, yellow fever, diarrhea caused by rotavirus, bacterial pneumonia, and human papilloma virus (HPV), among others. -
04/07/2016 - One in 12 inhabitants—some 62 million people—live with diabetes in the Americas. The number has tripled since 1980, and diabetes is currently the fourth-leading cause of death in the hemisphere following heart attacks, strokes and dementias. If current trends continue, experts estimate that nearly 110 million people in the region will have diabetes by 2040. -
03/31/2016 - The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health threat, declaring that the 20-month global emergency response is over but stressing that a “high level of vigilance” must be maintained. -
03/30/2016 - Surveillance for Zika Virus infection is intensifying in the Americas, but "It is hard to say exactly what the burden of disease in the region is, or will be in the future," according to Dr. Sylvain Aldighieri of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization. -
03/23/2016 - Investing in adolescent girls – especially in their education and reproductive health and rights – will ensure sustainable development for all, according to United Nations officials, government representative, experts, and young women who gathered today at an event at UN Headquarters. -
03/18/2016 - To help intensify the control of Tuberculosis, delegates from Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Nicaragua and Bolivia have formed a Regional Parliamentary Front Against Tuberculosis in the Americas. It aims to work closely with governments and civil society to promote assignment of financial resources for activities to end the disease, in the context of the new Global End TB Strategy and the Plan of Action for Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis 2016-2019 of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). -
03/18/2016 - WHO has dispatched a team of specialists to the southern prefecture of Nzérékoré after 2 new cases of Ebola were detected and confirmed in a rural village. -
03/16/2016 - An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from WHO. Environmental risk factors, such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change, and ultraviolet radiation, contribute to more than 100 diseases and injuries. -
03/10/2016 - New research has shown a strong link between Zika infection and foetal malformations and neurological disorders, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.