Tag: Jarbas Barbosa

• Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 20:24 UTC

  PAHO and Argentine authorities join forces to tackle dengue crisis

  

  Argentine health authorities and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have joined forces to devise a strategy to tackle the outbreak of dengue fever after at least 315,000 cases have been confirmed so far this year, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Brazil's Dr Jarbas Barbosa elected as WHO Regional Director for the Americas

  

  The World Health Organization, WHO Executive Board, currently holding its 152nd meeting in Geneva, has appointed Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. as Regional Director for the Americas effective February 2023.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 20:17 UTC

  PAHO says more COVID-19 vaccines needed

  

  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa Wednesday urged G20 leaders meeting this coming weekend at Rome's Summit to donate more COVID-19 vaccines because the region's improvements in the fight against the disease were shadowed by steps backward in the most impoverished territories and Caribbean Islands.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  With summer rainfall dengue outbreak threatens fifty major Brazilian cities

  

  Some fifty Brazilian cities are exposed to serious outbreaks of dengue during the austral summer and another 236 are on ‘alert’ for the same reason, according to a paper presented Monday by Brazil’s Health minister Alexandre Padhilla.