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Loading ...IDB to Join Fight on Neglected Infectious Diseases / El BID combatirá las enfermedades tropicales desatendidas / O BID vai combater as doenças infecciosas negligenciadas
Friday, September 4th, 2009From the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): IDB plans major effort to fight neglected infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean Bank to create grant facility to support health measures to control and eliminate diseases such as dengue and Chagas The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)—together with the Pan American Health Organization and the Global Network […]
Gates Foundation to Fund Fight Against “Neglected” Diseases / Fundación Gates dona millones para combatir enfermedades “olvidadas”
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Gates Foundation Grant Will Boost Fight against “Neglected” Diseases New Funds Announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Efforts to prevent, control and eliminate “forgotten” tropical and other infectious diseases in the Americas received a new stimulus with the announcement of a $34 million grant by […]
Fighting Neglected Diseases in LAC / La lucha contra enfermedades infecciosas desatendidas en ALC
Sunday, December 28th, 2008From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): PAHO, IDB and Sabin refine fight against neglected diseases in Latin America and Caribbean With more than 210 million poor people bearing the burden of neglected diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and partner agencies are […]
Protecting Health from Climate Change
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008As they promised last year, in April the World Health Organization (WHO) and its regional counterpart, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), celebrated World Health Day in April by trying to educate us all about the possible health impacts of global climate change on health. Most assessments and discussions of climate change to date have […]
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 […]
What to Expect from WHO’s New Director-General
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006On Thursday 09 November 2006 the World Health Organization (WHO) elected a new chief executive, and it wasn’t a Latin. Dr. Margaret Chan of Hong Kong (but representing China in the contest) beat out Mexican Health Minister Julio Frenk for the post of Director-General (DG) — first for the WHO Executive Board (EB) endorsement, and […]
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 […]