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Montevideo, April 21st 2025 - 23:22 UTC

Tag: Jarbas Barbosa

  • Tuesday, April 15th 2025 - 18:53 UTC

    PAHO insists on the importance of universal access to care

    Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF) can significantly improve health systems' response to achieve more equitable outcomes,” Barbosa said

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) released a report Tuesday warning about the need to bolster public health capacities to ensure universal health access, equity, and resilience against challenges like Covid-19. The “Implementation of the Essential Public Health Functions in the Americas: Evaluation and Strengthening of Capacities” study was based on evaluations in 14 countries between 2021 and 2023.

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  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 20:55 UTC

    PAHO warns of NCDs spreading in the region

    “The good news is that we have the knowledge and tools to prevent and control NCDs,” Barbosa pointed out

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued an urgent call to address the primary factors contributing to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which claim approximately 6 million lives annually in the Americas. At the Regional Meeting on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases held in Brasilia, PAHO Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa highlighted that over 240 million people in the region live with NCDs, such as hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, requiring continuous treatment. However, many lack adequate care due to poor management and control.

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

    PAHO and Argentine authorities join forces to tackle dengue crisis

    The Aedes Aegypti mosquito has grown immune to some insecticides due to the overuse of these chemicals

    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

    Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. received his medical degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and specialized in public health and epidemiology

    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

    Chile, Uruguay and Canada have fully injected three-quarters of their population.

    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

    Health minister Alexandre Padhilla made the announcement and called for simple measures to avoid the disease

    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.