Read PAHO’s Annual Report on Disaster Reduction

Posted in Issue 103 - April 2006 News from PAHO/WHO

PAHO’s 2005 Annual Report on disaster preparedness, mitigation and response is now on the web at www.disaster-info.net/AnnualReport05. Among the many activities that took place in Latin America and the Caribbean, the report looks at efforts to plan in earnest for pandemic influenza and, following the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, to rally around the “Safe Hospitals” initiative. The report also discusses support to disaster response efforts in other regions of the world.