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  • Polytechnic School promotes webinar “Profile and educational trajectories of health technicians at the Virtual Public Health Campus”
    05/10/2024 - No ano em que completa 20 anos como Centro Colaborador da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) para Educação de Técnicos em Saúde, a Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/Fiocruz) promoveu, no dia 16 de abril, o webinário “Perfil e trajetórias educativas dos técnicos em saúde que realizam cursos no CVSP/Opas”. Realizado em parceria com a Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde (Opas), o evento tem como objetivo apresentar a plataforma e a metodologia utilizada em uma pesquisa que analisa a trajetória e a experiência de usuários técnicos de saúde que já fizeram cursos no Campus Virtual de Saúde Pública da Opas por meio de uma caraterização do perfil sociodemográfico e laboral desses trabalhadores e do levantamento dos cursos oferecidos com maior frequência pelos técnicos de saúde ao nível regional.
  • PAHO presents key recommendations to increase equitable access to health at G20 event in Brazil
    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.
  • Research aims to increase the participation of health technicians in the PAHO/WHO Virtual Campus for Public Health (CVSP)
    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
  • World Health Day 2024: "My health, my right" - WHO's call for health autonomy
    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.
  • PAHO urges adoption of innovative technologies and treatments to eliminate tuberculosis
    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.
  • Wave of new commitments marks historic step towards the elimination of cervical cancer
    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.
  • PAHO calls fourth meeting of Americas countries on future global pandemic agreement
    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).
  • Cancer rates set to rise 77 per cent by 2050
    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.
  • The World Health Organization asks not to let our guard down against COVID-19
    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.
  • RIETS brings together experts to discuss simulation-based education in Health Technician training
    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.

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