Tag: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 06:58 UTC

  Zika virus epidemic spreads in the region; women advised to delay pregnancy

  

  The mosquito-borne Zika virus has already infected more than 13,500 people in Colombia and could hit as many as 700,000, the health minister said on Wednesday. According to Pan-American Health Organization figures, the country is second only to Brazil in infection rates, health minister Alejandro Gaviria told journalists.

• Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 08:47 UTC

  Caribbean Chikungunya cases over half a million, says PA health organization

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the number of new cases of the Chikungunya in the Caribbean increased by nearly 38,000 last week with the Dominican Republic having the most cases.