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Dengue remains the most common vector-transmitted disease in the world despite enormous prevention and control efforts by endemic countries and regions. Today, after decades of research, public health programs contemplate as part of the intervention to control the disease, a safe and effective…

Fuente: World Health Organization Since the first edition was published in 2000, Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth has been translated into several languages and today is used widely in training for and the provision of emergency obstetric care. The new edition brings the guidance…

Kim Simplis Barrow and Reema Carmona participated in the subregional consultation organized by UN agencies and partners in Barbados for the adaptation of the Global Strategy to the context of the Caribbean

Fuente: Thomson Reuters Foundation News LONDON, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, on Tuesday won the race to become the next director-general of the World Health Organisation.

Santiago, 3 July 2017—Latin American and Caribbean countries today agreed to work to end the preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by 2030, and to develop effective actions for that population to prosper and transform the world.

San Salvador, El Salvador, March 10, 2017 The workshop "Identification of actions to improve access for medicines and supplies for maternal and child health care and sexual and reproductive health" was held in San Salvador from March 8 to 10. The event was coordinated by the Executive Secretariat…

Original article published in Spanish in the newspaper El Pais Every day, Paulina tours Belize to interview those responsible for the health teams. She compiles and analyzes hundreds of data dispersed in different…

Fuente: La Nación NEW YORK – Everyone – from elected officials and bureaucrats to voters and taxpayers – can learn from the world's largest charitable foundation about effective development spending. And these lessons are particularly relevant at a time when 56% of Europeans believe their…

Fuente: Tulane University The Latin American Library at Tulane University is pleased to announce the Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowships to support research at the Library for 2017-18. Their purpose is to offer researchers who permanently reside in any country of Latin America or the Caribbean short-…