News
- Directing Council charts course to reduce deaths from disease, improve health across the Americas
- Health Ministers hear progress reports on pressing health concerns
- Delegates call for unified approach to the challenge of high-cost medicines
- More than 1.6 million cases of chikungunya reported in the Americas since first appearance of the virus in 2013
- Health ministers pledge new action to confront antimicrobial resistance in the Americas
- Dementias are on the rise in the Americas, health officials say
- Health leaders vow new action to address the epidemic of violence against women in the Americas
- Health ministers from the Americas adopt new strategies on hepatitis, tuberculosis, immunization, and health-related laws
- Health ministers adopt new strategy to battle tuberculosis in the Americas
- PAHO will help countries strengthen laws and regulatory frameworks to protect and promote public health
- Health leaders set new goals to strengthen immunization in the Americas
- Health ministers adopt first regional plan to reduce the burden of hepatitis in the Americas
- World population over 60 is set to double by 2050; major societal changes required
- Countries agree on 10-year plan to reduce work-related injuries and illness in the Americas
- Former minister of health of El Salvador María Isabel Rodríguez is named a PAHO Health Hero of the Americas
- First Lady of Honduras, health ministers discuss effects of climate change on health
- PAHO Director's annual report shows the Americas "leading by example"
- Strong health systems, effective leadership, and universal access are key to facing health challenges in the Americas
- Health Minister of El Salvador elected president of the Pan American Health Organization's 54th Directing Council
- Fifty years after its opening, PAHO's iconic modernist headquarters building is honored
- Health ministers of the Americas to agree on key policies and actions to improve health
- PAHO to offer special webcast on key health issues during its 54th Directing Council
- Embajadores de la OEA recibieron informe de Etienne sobre los temas que se abordarán en el 54º Consejo Directivo de la OPS
Events
- Mais Médicos a model of South-South cooperation
- Photo exhibit on progress towards meeting Millennium Development Goals
- International Coalition Urges Final Push to Eliminate River Blindness from the Americas
- First Lady of Honduras, health ministers discuss effects of climate change on health
- A series of parallel events will be held during the week of the 54th Directing Council of PAHO
Speeches
- Welcoming Remarks Dr. Carissa F Etienne 54th Directing Council
- Opening Remarks By Dr. Hans Troedsson, Assistant Director-General for General Management of the World Health Organization
- Opening Remarks by Hon. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, U.S. Secretary Health and Human Services
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