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A New Way to Fund Life-Saving Vaccines
Friday, April 3rd, 2009From the World Bank:
Funding New Vaccines To Save Millions Of Lives
World Bank to Provide Financial Platform for Pilot Vaccine Program
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a financial platform for a pilot vaccine program that will benefit millions of children in the developing world.
The Advance Market Commitment (AMC) pilot will help accelerate the [...]
Latins Recognized for Tobacco Control Efforts
Thursday, March 12th, 2009At the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health (WCTOH) held this week in Mumbai, India, two sets of awards were given this week in international recognition of exemplary tobacco control efforts. In both sets Latin Americans figured prominently.
The first set, announced on 09 March, were the Bloomberg Awards for Global Tobacco Control given by [...]
Vehicle Pollution in São Paulo Quadrulpes Risk of Death
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Vehicle emissions indirectly kill 20 people per day in the São Paulo metropolitan region, according to a study reported in the daily Folha de São Paulo done by the Air Pollution Laboratory of the University of São Paulo’s (USP) Faculty of Medicine (FM). The study was commissioned by the Brazilian Health Ministry (MS) and has [...]
OMS: tabaco, mala alimentación, inactividad y uso de alcohol son principales amenazas para la salud humana
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Desde la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS):
Tabaco, mala alimentación, inactividad y uso de alcohol: principales amenazas para la salud humana
Expertos enfatizan necesidad de una mejor coordinación para maximizar los alcances en salud
La modificación de cuatro principales factores conductuales de riesgo -consumo de tabaco, dieta malsana, inactividad física y consumo nocivo de alcohol- podría prevenir [...]
Keep Children Lean and Active, Prevent Cancer Later in Life / Prevengamos el cáncer promoviendo hoy una infancia activa
Saturday, February 7th, 2009From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO):
PAHO: “Keep Children Lean and Active, Prevent Cancer Later in Life”
World Cancer Day marked with launch of “I love my healthy, active childhood” global campaign
Establishing healthy habits early in life—particularly eating well and being active—is critical to lowering cancer rates in adulthood, experts from the Pan American Health [...]
Bolivia Bans Dozens of Pesticides, Activists Call for Rest of LAC to Follow
Monday, February 2nd, 2009At the close of the meeting of the Latin American section of the Pesticide Action Network (known by its Spanish acronym RAP-AL) in La Paz last week, host country Bolivia announced that it was banning all pesticides with active ingredients classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as extremely (Class 1a) or highly (Class 1b) [...]
DR & Central America Agree on Common Health, Pharma Policies/Programs
Saturday, January 31st, 2009It doesn’t get much attention outside this corner of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but the annual Meeting of the Health Sector of Central America and the Dominican Republic (Reunión del Sector Salud de Centro América y República Dominicana - RESSCAD) is quietly doing important work to change health policy among its seven member [...]
The Global Spread of Cholera
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I’ve mentioned before the quality graphics related to environmental issues offered by the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) GRID-Arendal center in Norway. Here’s another one just released by them that is more on the health side of the environment-health interface which I found quite striking. Click on the image to see a larger version.
GRID-Arendal says this [...]
Eradicating an Ancient Disease
Monday, January 26th, 2009Leprosy.
What images does that word invoke for you? The stories of ostracized lepers from the Bible, Torah or Koran? The scenes involving isolated “leper colonies” from Papillon or Motorcycle Diaries?
How much do you know about it? Is it very contagious? (No.) Is it curable? (Yes.) Hasn’t it disappeared except for isolated [...]
WHO Approves Work Plan on Climate Change and Health
Sunday, January 25th, 2009The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board (EB) at its session in Geneva last week approved the WHO Secretariat’s proposed work plan on climate change and health. The basic elements of the work plan are:
Awareness Raising
Develop tools, guidance, information and training packages to support awareness and advocacy campaigns to protect health from climate change at [...]
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