Cervical Cancer Control in LAC / Control del cáncer de cuello uterino en ALC
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Researchers Report that Better Screening, Treatment, and Affordable Vaccines Can Prevent Doubling of Cervical Cancer Deaths in Latin America, Caribbean With Cervical Cancer Killing 33,000 Annually in the Region, Experts in Mexico City Consider Promise, Costs of Detection, Treatment and Introduction of New Vaccines against Deadly Virus Thirty-three […]
Flu Vaccine Technology to Be Transfered to Brazil, Mexico
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007From the World Health Organization (WHO): WHO facilitates vaccine technology transfer to developing countries As part of a concerted effort to ensure more equitable access to a potential pandemic influenza vaccine, six developing countries are being awarded grants to establish in-country manufacturing capacity for influenza vaccine. The countries are Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and […]
The Costs of Vaccinating and of Not Vaccinating: The Case of Pneumococcal Disease in LAC
Friday, April 20th, 2007This has been sitting in the backlog queue since December, I am ashamed to say. I wanted to reshape this into a true Temas article (hence the delay), but simply do not have the time. Yet I still consider the issue important and relevant enough to reprint the PAHO press release below. The Second Regional […]