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Public Health Highlights
  • World Summit on Health Research: The Health Research Necessary to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
    The World Health Organization and the Government of Mexico will convene a Ministerial Summit on Health Research November 16-20 in Mexico City. The 2004 annual meeting, Forum 8, organized by the Global Forum for Health Research, will be held in conjunction with this event. More »
  • St. Lucia: PAHO Collaborating in Model Mental Health Project
    Plans are underway to pilot a model community mental health project in Saint Lucia following the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding between the Government of Saint Lucia, the UK- based AMKAM Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization. More »
  • First-Hand Experiences in Maternal and Child Health
    World Health Day 2005 will focus on maternal and child health. The World Health Organization has launched "Great Expectations," where six mothers-to-be in different countries share their experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. One of them is from the region of the Americas: Damiana, who lives in the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. More »
  • Millennium Development Goals in Perspectives in Health
    Perspectives in Health, the magazine published three times a year by the Pan American Health Organization has a new edition online. This edition is a special issue on the Millennium Development Goals. More »
  • International Effort on Infectious Diseases Underway
    An international effort to update the International Health Regulations (IHRs), the most useful instrument in preventing the spread of infectious diseases, is under way until June 2005. PAHO has created a web page that centralizes this effort in the Region of the Americas. More »

PAHO, USAID Sign Agreement on Maternal Health, Infectious Disease, and Health Systems

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a new three-year $20 million regional partnership agreement to improve maternal and child health, reduce infectious disease, and strengthen health systems. Read More »


PAHO News
  • PAHO Director Participates in Health Research Summit
    Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), is in Mexico this week to participate in the Ministerial Summit on Health Research, along with more than 50 ministers of health, directors of organizations, and academic leaders. Read More »
  • Influenza Preparedness Must Become Public Health Priority, Experts Say
    Influenza experts at a Pan American Health Organization technical meeting say that national preparedness plans to confront a potential influenza pandemic must become a "public health priority without delay." Read More »
  • Rubella Elimination Advancing, Experts Say
    A continental plan to eliminate rubella in the Americas is advancing and should reach its target of 2010, experts at a Pan American Health Organization technical meeting said here today. Read More »
  • PAHO Director Pledges Support for Hurricane-Ravaged Grenada
    The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Mirta Roses Periago promises to establish a program support unit in the hurricane ravaged Caribbean island of Grenada to complement the Ministry of Health recovery and reconstruction efforts. Read More »