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World Health Report 2008
Primary Health Care: The Best Cure for Failed Systems
Healthcare costs are rising everywhere, yet people are not getting the care they need. Now more than ever, the answer is reform based on primary health care.
Health systems around the world are failing to meet the needs of the people they are supposed to serve, a failure that is now becoming "a threat to social stability," says the 2008 World Health Report, Primary Health Care: Now More than Ever.
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INDEX
Primary Health Care: The Best Cure for Failed Systems
QUOTED AT LENGTH: Dr. Socorro Gross
Singer José José Denounces Violence against Women
PAHO Teams Up with Clinton Global Initiative
Ministers Commit to New Action in Health
Panels Discuss Climate Change, Primary Care
Caribbean Celebrates First Wellness Day
Three "Healthy Cities" Win 2008 Awards
China Infant Formula Crisis Highlights Need to Promote Breastfeeding
Experts: Don't Let Up in the Fight against Malaria
PAHO Joins IDB, Sabin Institute to Fight Neglected Diseases
Region Makes Progress, Faces Challenges on HIV
Countries Raise Awareness on World Rabies Day 2008
New PAHO Tool Measures Hospital Safety
Patient Champions Launch New Advocacy Network
New Vision for PAHO Scientific Journal
Publications on Alcohol
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2013
En la ciudad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, se realizó el pasado 13 y 14 de junio del 2013 el primer taller nacional de capacitación sobre estudios para la evaluación de la transmisión (EVT) de la filariasis linfática. En este taller fueron entrenados 16 trabajadores de salud del país quienes apoyan las acciones del programa nacional de eliminación de filariasis linfática (PNEFL) bajo la coordinación del Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales (CENCET).
During the 14th Meeting (13-14 November 2012) of the Intergovernmental Commission of the Initiative of Central American Countries for the Interruption of Vectoral and Transfusional Transmission and Medical Care of Chagas Disease (IPCA) Belize was certified with the Standard of Interruption of Vectoral Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi).
En la ciudad de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, se reunieron el pasado 10 y 11 de junio de 2013 delegados de los ministerios de salud de Brasil, Costa Rica, Guyana, Haití, República Dominicana, Surinam y Trinidad y Tobago, para analizar el progreso hacia la eliminación de la filariasis linfática (elefantiasis).
Plan Decenal de Salud Pública 2012-2021 de Colombia (06/12/2013)
PAHO welcomes countries’ commitment to eliminate 12 neglected diseases from the Americas by 2015 (06/11/2013)
Experts meet to enhance synergies for soil-transmitted helminthiases control in the Americas (05/31/2013)
Fighting hepatitis requires integrated approach, strong support from countries and partners (05/21/2013)
Honduras expands deworming of children in remote communities during vaccination campaigns (05/12/2013)
PAHO/WHO to support Guyana and Suriname in studies of resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) (05/10/2013)
“Malaria Champions of the Americas” contest seeks best practices that integrate other health solutions (04/25/2013)
Décimo Primera Semana de Vacunación en Honduras incluirá campaña de desparasitación en cuatro departamentos del país (04/20/2013)
Presidente del Paraguay lanza campaña de desparasitación nacional (04/17/2013)
Curso a distancia de autoaprendizaje de Leishmaniasis en las Américas: diagnóstico y tratamiento (04/14/2013)
Misión de Evaluación Internacional de la Prevención, Control y Atención de la Enfermedad de Chagas en Argentina (03/26/2013)
Salud y Educación firman acuerdo para ejecutar campaña antiparasitaria nacional (03/25/2013)
Entrevista: La Tuberculosis es una enfermedad del pasado muy presente en la región (03/22/2013)
Ministry of Health of Brazil, started a deworming and leprosy case-finding campaign (03/20/2013)
PAHO/WHO urges stepped-up efforts against TB in vulnerable urban groups in the Americas (03/18/2013)
World TB Day: Experts to discuss TB prevention and control in big cities (03/17/2013)
Progress in the fight against neglected infectious diseases in the Americas and the world (01/15/2013)
New year, new materials: PAHO releases an infographic to continue the fight against Hepatitis in the Americas (01/11/2013)
World Malaria Report 2012 (01/10/2013)
2012
In the Americas, malaria cases have declined nearly 60% since 2000 (12/20/2012)
PAHO Deputy Director urges integrated approach to neglected tropical diseases (11/23/2012)
Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association Honors PAHO Manager Marcos Espinal (11/16/2012)
Call for Applications to the Regional Green Light Committee (rGLC) (11/15/2012)
PAHO Honors 2012 Malaria Champions of the Americas (11/09/2012)
USAID triples its financial support for PAHO/WHO project to fight tuberculosis in Latin America and the Caribbean (10/31/2012)
On 6th Annual Malaria Day in the Americas, PAHO Will Honor Malaria Champions of the Americas (10/10/2012)
PAHO events during the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (07/19/2012)
Argentina: Santiago del Estero Marks Key Milestone in Chagas control in a hyperendemic area (In Spanish) (07/02/2012)
The Region of the Americas is preparing the commemoration of "World Hepatitis Day" (06/24/2012)
Evalúan Plan Nacional para prevenir enfermedades infecciosas desatendidas (In Spanish) (06/20/2012)
La OPS celebra la primera Reunión Regional sobre Hepatitis Virales en América Latina y el Caribe (06/19/2012)
Resultados y conclusiones de un taller en prevención de Chagas en Brasilia (In Spanish) (06/11/2012)
Uruguay es el 1º país de América Latina libre del insecto que transmite el mal de chagas (05/24/2012)
Countries of the Americas promote integrated action to eliminate neglected diseases (05/17/2012)
News for the STH Control Community. Children Without Worms. Sharing Knowledge and Success Stories (04/26/2012)
Taller Regional de Fortalecimiento de la Gestión de Medicamentos con énfasis en 2da Línea (In Spanish) (04/20/2012)
Guatemala es sede de la segunda reunión regional para la eliminación del tracoma en las Américas (04/18/2012)
Se realiza el “Taller Para Elaborar la Norma Nacional de la Leishmaniasis” (In Spanish) (03/30/2012)
Press Release: Private and Public Partners Unite to Combat 10 Neglected Tropical Diseases by 2020 (01/30/2012)
2011
World Malaria Report 2011 (12/15/2011)
Evaluación de terreno en Argentina confirma notables avances en el control de la enfermedad de Chagas (12/06/2011)
PAHO-USAID Training Program in Tuberculosis: Terms of Reference 2012 (12/05/2011)
Colombia, el primer país de las Américas que elimina la oncocercosis (11/14/2011)
PAHO Honors Malaria Champions of the Americas 2011 (11/09/2011)
Países de las Américas acordaron plan para reducir la malaria, prevenir su reintroducción y mantener los logros (09/29/2011)
AMI/RAVREDA celebró 10 años de lucha contra la malaria en el Amazonas (09/15/2011)
Celebrating 10 Years of Collaboration: Looking into the Future Together (09/12/2011)
PAHO/WHO Warns of Growing Health Toll of Hepatitis (07/27/2011)
Se logra la interrupción de la transmisión de Oncocercosis en un foco de República Bolivariana de Venezuela (06/01/2011)
El control de las enfermedades transmisibles, 19a ed. (05/20/2011)
Bolivia alcanza un hito clave en la lucha contra la enfermedad de Chagas (05/17/2011)
Some Neglected Diseases Could be Eliminated in the Americas, PAHO Paper Says (02/19/2011)
PAHO Director: Reducing Poverty is Key to Face Neglected Diseases (02/10/2011)
2010
Rhodnius prolixus en Centroamérica, un peligroso vector de la enfermedad de Chagas que deja de serlo (12/12/2010)
WHO: New Quick Test a Milestone for Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Care (12/08/2010)
Guidelines Improve Access of Health Workers to HIV and TB Services (12/03/2010)
PAHO Names "Malaria Champions of the Americas 2010" (11/04/2010)
PAHO Celebrates Fourth Annual “Malaria Day in the Americas," Recognizes “Malaria Champions" (10/29/2010)
Moquegua logró interrumpir transmisión de milenaria enfermedad de chagas en su región (09/20/2010)
Expertos en resistencia a los antimaláricos se reúnen en Panamá (07/14/2010)
Malaria Burden More than Halved in the Americas (04/22/2010)
PAHO Cites TB Progress, Honors Innovation on World TB Day (03/15/2010)
2009
36 Million People With TB Cured Using the Stop TB Strategy (12/07/2009)
PAHO and Canada Target Communicable Diseases in South America (11/19/2009)
PAHO Honors "Malaria Champions of the Americas 2009" (11/11/2009)
PAHO, PAHEF, and The George Washington University launch the Malaria Champions of the Americas Award (06/16/2009)
2008
PAHO, IDB and Sabin refine fight against neglected diseases in Latin America and Caribbean (12/17/2008)
Malaria in the Americas: No Time to Ease Up (11/06/2008)
An ACHIEVABLE DREAM: Eliminating some Diseases from the Region (02/01/2008)
World Malaria Report 2012
World Tuberculosis Day 2013
PAHO releases an infographic to continue the fight against Hepatitis in the Americas
16th Meeting of the WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020
Conclusions and Recommendations - GET2020 (In Spanish)