Aiming to Eliminate Chagas by 2010
Monday, July 9th, 2007From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Global Partners Launch Renewed Battle Against Chagas The “Kissing Bug” Disease Strategy Set Out to Eliminate Disease A new effort to eliminate Chagas disease by 2010 has been launched at a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting of disease experts and partners. The strategy is designed to answer key […]
The Elections for WHO’s DG: The LAC Connection
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006On Thursday the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) will elect a new chief executive (Director-General – DG) and the campaigning has been more intensely and publicly contested than in prior elections. One of the leading candidates and lightning rods of the campaign is Mexico’s Health Minister, Dr. Julio Frenk. So what? You may ask why […]
A Sobering Look at Climate Change’s Probable Impact on the Region
Monday, September 11th, 2006A collection of 20 environment and development nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)* calling themselves the Working Group on Climate Change and Development recently released a report trying to catalog current manifestations in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) of global climate change and look at probable future impacts thereof. Whether or not you wholly agree with their methodology, […]
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