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Montevideo, April 27th 2024 - 02:47 UTC

Tag: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

  • 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.

  • Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

    PAHO: Latin America still not safe from SARS-Cov-2

    LatAm still far from herd immunity, PAHO's Aldighieri warned

    As restrictive sanitary measures are being gradually lifted worldwide, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) warned Thursday in Mexico City that things do not look so bright in Latin America regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Monday, August 16th 2021 - 05:56 UTC

    PAHO Emergency medical teams expected at earthquake bashed Haiti

    ”Our hearts go out to the people of Haiti on this truly sad day,” said PAHO Director, Dr. Carissa F Etienne (Pic EFE)

    A team of experts from the Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) office in Port au Prince has been deployed to evaluate damage and coordinate an appropriate health response following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that shook Haiti on the morning of Saturday August 14.

  • Thursday, August 12th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

    PAHO set out to reverse low vaccination rates against COVID-19

    “There is no recovery path for any country as long as its neighbors remain vulnerable and the variants circulate and multiply,” Etienne insisted.

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Wednesday reported that less than 20% of people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been fully immunized against COVID-19 and announced actions will be taken to reverse that situation.

  • Friday, May 28th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

    Family Planning in Latin America threatened as women and pregnant mothers prove most vulnerable to Covid

    Women are more likely than men to live in poverty, take on unpaid work and lose their jobs during the pandemic, the WHO regional branch said. (Pic DPA)

    The coronavirus pandemic is affecting women more than men in Latin America and pregnant mothers above all, threatening to roll back 20 years of advances in access to family planning, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.

  • Saturday, January 23rd 2021 - 09:47 UTC

    Uruguay acquired Pfizer and Sinovac vaccines; details will be announced Saturday

    President Lacalle Pou tweeted that Uruguay had closed deals with Pfizer/Bio/Tech and Sinovac for the acquisition of Covid 19 vaccines

    Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Friday that a deal for the purchase of Pfizer/BioNTech and China's Sinovac anti Covid-19 vaccines has been reached. No further details were advanced, only that the president will announce details of the operation Saturday midday.

  • Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

    Brazil reports 35,000 new virus cases; PAHO denies the pandemic is under control

    Walter Braga Netto, head of the office of the president’s chief of staff, and one of the top officials handling the crisis, said it was under control

    Brazil reported a record 34,918 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the same day that one of the senior officials leading the country’s widely criticized response to the crisis said the outbreak was under control.

  • Wednesday, March 28th 2018 - 14:18 UTC

    Measles spreads again in the Americas

    The region had finally been declared free of the disease by an International Committee of Experts in 2016 after 22 years of mass vaccination.

    After being the first continent in the world declared free of measles in 2016, nine countries in the region have registered cases last year. With almost 900 cases, Venezuela was the most affected. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warns that the countries of the region should intensify their efforts to immunize the population and stop the spread of the disease.

  • Friday, January 26th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

    Massive vaccination, 23.8 million, against yellow fever in Sao Paulo and Rio do Janeiro

    Some 23.8 million people are expected to be vaccinated during the campaign, including 10.3 million in São Paulo and 10 million in Rio de Janeiro.

    Brazil launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The strategic plan for the campaign was developed with support from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It will be the world’s largest vaccination campaign, to date, using fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine.

  • Monday, January 30th 2017 - 19:38 UTC

    Curbing the Tobacco Epidemic in the Americas

    There is clear evidence that appropriately structured tax policies can provide the l benefit of reducing tobacco consumption and generating additional tax revenues.

    By Carissa F. Etienne (*) Though the devastating health effects of tobacco use are well known, tobacco’s negative repercussions extend well beyond the obvious health outcomes.