To help implement a contact tracing programme for COVID-19 in Ukraine, WHO has been providing support, equipment and staff training to the state-run Chernivtsi Oblast Center for Disease Control and Prevention (OCDC) of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Odessa OCDC, in a pilot project that could soon be rolled out to other areas…
It is possible to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030 if leaders, particularly in highly affected countries, take action now.Globally, one person dies every 30 seconds from a hepatitis-related illness, so even in the current COVID-19 crisis, we can’t wait to act on viral hepatitis. This year’s World Hepatitis Day campaign,…
During the pandemic, the wearing of masks has introduced a new, unexpected challenge for the estimated 10 000 hearing-impaired people in Belarus: the inability to read lips. With this key means of understanding the world suddenly denied to them, many deaf people have found themselves both frustrated and isolated.This problem has proven to be particularly…
Center for Disease Analysis Foundation (CDAF) A pilot project in Uzbekistan has demonstrated that trained and empowered primary health care professionals help increase testing and improve management of chronic viral hepatitis.The project, which is in line with WHO recommendations on providing care close to people’s homes and in their communities, improved access to hepatitis services…
Two years after World Health Assembly Resolution 72.8 was agreed on improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health products, WHO/Europe has released a report identifying and summarizing the current evidence on the implementation of transparency measures in the WHO European Region. This follows intense debate over the roles and responsibilities of…
Over 1.2 million children in Tajikistan received oral polio vaccine in the second round of the supplemental immunization campaign completed on 5 July 2021. The immunization campaign was conducted in response to the identification of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in the country.Since March 2021, the Tajik government and health-care workforce have been working…
With the decree recently approved by Paraguay, smoking in indoor public spaces and workplaces is now banned in all countries of the region. Washington, D.C., January 8, 2021 (PAHO) The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today congratulated Paraguay for banning smoking of lit or electronic tobacco products in enclosed public spaces as well as crowded…
PAHO helps countries cope as more than 35 million people are infected and 850,000 die. Washington, D.C., December 30, 2020 (PAHO)—The COVID-19 pandemic swept through every country in the Americas in 2020, infecting more than 35 million people and causing some 850,000 deaths. Globally, COVID-19 affected 216 countries and territories, causing more than 80 million…
Buenos Aires/ Washington DC, diciembre 2020- Representantes de las Comisiones de Salud de los Parlamentos de las Américas, junto a la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), acordaron avanzar hacia la sanción de leyes que aceleren la transformación digital del sector salud en la postpandemia por la COVID-19. El compromiso fue asumido en el marco…
Aproximadamente un tercio de los brotes de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Alimentos (ETA) ocurren en el ambiente familiar PANAFTOSA, 18 de diciembre de 2020 – En las fiestas de fin de año los alimentos son preparados en gran cantidad y con mucha anticipación, hechos por los cuales aumentan los riesgos de las ETA’s. Estas fiestas serán atípicas por…