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PAHO steps up COVID-19 surveillance and vaccine procurement to fight surging infections, PAHO Director reports Format 31 Mar 2021 Genomic Surveillance Network is expanded to track variants while more than 2.5 million vaccine doses procured through COVAX arrive in 17 countries. Washington, DC, March 31, 2021 (PAHO) – Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa F. Etienne said PAHO has increased virus surveillance, vaccine procurement, and supply of equipment to help countries in the Amer...

English News and Press Release on Jamaica and 14 other countries about Health and Epidemic; published on 15 Mar 2021 by PAHO

Baptism of fire: Tested Caribbean trailblazer leads COVID response in the Americas Miami Herald (FL) Latin America and the Brazil, and mobilized a regional response against the threat of Ebola. A medical doctor by training, Carissa Etiennes leadership during public health outbreaks as head of the World Health Organizations Americas office is rooted in years of handling crises, starting with the trailblazing reconstruction of her hurricane-battered Caribbean nations health care system more t...

Three more countries in the Americas receive COVID-19 vaccines made available through COVAX, PAHO reports Format PAHO is moving quickly to ensure delivery to more countries in coming weeks. Washington, D.C. March 12, 2021 (PAHO) – In the last few days, three more countries in the Americas have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines procured through COVAX, a global effort between the Coalition for the Promotion of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Gavi Vaccine Alliance (Ga...

Three more countries in the Americas receive COVID-19 vaccines made available through COVAX, PAHO reports 12 Mar 2021 PAHO is moving quickly to ensure delivery to more countries in coming weeks. Washington, D.C. March 12, 2021 (PAHO) – In the last few days, three more countries in the Americas have received their first doses of COVID-19 vaccines procured through COVAX, a global effort between the Coalition for the Promotion of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Gavi Vaccin...

PAHO Director calls for more women in leadership of the fight against COVID-19 8 Mar 2021 Washington, D.C., 8 March 2021 (PAHO)—Marking International Women’s Day, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Carissa F. Etienne today said that women are “on the frontlines” of the fight against COVID-19 but underrepresented in global and national health leadership. She called for building leadership with the “full involvement of women” during and after the pandemi...

Washington, DC, March 1, 2021 (PAHO/WHO)- Colombia today became the first country in the Americas to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility, marking an historic step toward the goal of ensuring equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the region and worldwide.

PAHO urges early detection of congenital defects 2 Mar 2021 In Latin America and the Caribbean, 15 countries have surveillance systems for these anomalies, which cause almost 20,000 deaths of infants up to 28 days old. Montevideo/Washington, March 2, 2021 (CLAP/PAHO) - On World Birth Defects Day taking place tomorrow, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged early detection of birth defects and continuous support and care to newborns and their families so they can develop to t...

El Salvador certified as malaria-free by WHO 25 Feb 2021 El Salvador is first Central American country to achieve this status, third in all of the Americas in recent years Washington, D.C. February 25, 2021 (WHO/PAHO) – El Salvador today became the first country in Central America to be awarded a certification of malaria elimination by the World Health Organization (WHO). The certification follows more than 50 years of commitment by the Salvadoran government and people to ending the d...

English News and Press Release on World about Health and Epidemic; published on 24 Feb 2021 by PAHO