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PLoS Neglected Tropical diseases August 16, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009697
Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a neglected tropical disease transmitted by triatomine insects, first identified in 1909. Chagas disease affects approximately 6–7 million peop
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salud pública de méxico / vol. 50, suplemento 2 de 2008, pp.167-177.
In response to the emerging global concern regarding health and people with intellectual disabilities (ID), several developed
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Regional indicators to measure progress towards zero discrimination
UNAIDS 2018 | Guidance
Core Knowledge for Emergency Preparedness and Response
Under the theme “Stronger Together”, the campaign aims to offer information and strategies to assist communities in
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Conference Report Sao Paulo, Brazil 22-24 October 2015
Identificando o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e melhorando desfechos em pacientes com fibrilação atrial na América Latina
DOI: 10.1590/1516-3180.2015.0222110716
Sao Paulo Med J. 2016; 134(6):534-42
Climate-related disasters, heatwaves, climate-sensitive diseases, and severe droughts and floods are taking lives and harming health, livelihoods,
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In Danger: UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022
recommended
Progress in prevention and treatment is faltering around the world, putting millions of people in grave danger. Eastern Europe and central Asia,
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The aim of this paper is to investigate how doctors working in primary health care in Latin American address patients with common mental disorders and
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Clinical Infectious Diseases
1586 - 1594 • CID 2016:62 (15 June) • HIV/AIDS
Most shelters in the Caribbean are community centers, schools, or churches that are limited in size. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) dista
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2nd edition. The Pan American Health Organization and the Caribbean Development Bank developed t
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BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000345. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000345. WHO's 2020 milestones for Chagas disease include having all endemic Latin American countries certified with no intradomiciliary Trypanosoma cruzi transmission,
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The overview of findings from five Latin American countries
Downloaded from https://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines on 10/19/2019
Recommendations from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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Guidelines for Diagnosing and Managing Disseminated Histoplasmosis among People Living with HIV
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Histoplasmosis is a disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. This disease is highly endemic in some regions of North America, Central America
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16 June 2020
PAHO’s Smart Hospitals Project started in 2009 and has been implemented across nine countries in the Caribbean Region.
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This situation update is on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) reported cases and deaths, Globally, Regionally, for Barbados and
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In the course of implementing a recently funded network of hubs for building capacities in mental health service development, training, and research (RedeAmericas),
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The Minimum Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement were developed through an inter‑agency consultation process that engaged a large number of experts from around
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2nd edition. This is a revision of an illustrated booklet developed by the Pan American Health Organization and the
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In this document, the Inter-American Committee of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, together with the South
American Society of Cardio
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A comprehensive compilation is provided of the medicinal plants of the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (formerly Burma). This contribution, containing 123 families, 367 genera,
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WHY THIS GUIDE?
Because, in the face of crises and emergencies, it is vital to include a human rights perspective in responses. Vulnerable groups face major obstacles to accessing
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This booklet presents data on NCD mortality and prevalence of NCD risk factors, by country, for the Region of the Americas.
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This publication presents the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030 (
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on the mental health of populations in the Americas. Studies
show high rates of depression
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This fact sheet highlights the relationship between alcohol consumption and COVID-19. Heavy episodic drinking is considered a health risk for COVID-19, an
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Throughout the Americas, populations are aging and the Region is undergoing a rapid demographic transition.
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54th directing council; 67th session of the regional Committee of WHO for the Americas
CD54/11, Rev. 1, 2 October 2015, Original: Spanish
Making the Case for Alcohol as a Public Health Threat in the Region. The purpose of this document is to explain
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This third regional report discusses gaps and challenges in reducing the harmful use of alcohol and how countries can reverse current trends in a c
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This new edition highlights once again the importance of collecting disaggregated data to conduct gender-based analysis in order to determine, address, reduce, and eliminate
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The document is structured into five sections. The first presents the key experiences and challe
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Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, w
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The International Forum of Indigenous Women (IIWF) has prepared this report in order to have a
document for analysis and systematization of the im
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PLoS Negl Trop Dis 15(8): e0009697. Chagas disease (CD), caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects ~6–7 million people worldwide. Significant limitations still exist in our understanding of CD. Harnessing individual participant data (IPD)
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This third edition of the landscape analysis provides regional and country-specific data. This report illustrates the complexities in surveillance
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This document focuses on making recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease, an infection caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, the pr
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The proposed roadmap includes components and recommended actions to eliminate these neglected infectious diseases from the Americas.
This research report offers community perceptions of COVID-19 from migrants, refugees, host communities and indigenous populations in nine countries in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colo
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As of 21 May 2020, 4.8 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been reported globally. In South America, COVID-19 was first detected on 26 February 2020, when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo.
Crisis Group’s Watch List identifies ten countries or regions at risk of deadly conflict or escalation thereof in 2021. In these places, early action, driven or supported by the EU and its member
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According to official figures from Migración Colombia by the end of June 2019, there were more than 1.4 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants living in Colombia.
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Taenia saginata is a zoonotic tapeworm that is of economic importance in countries where cattle are kept. The parasite is transmitted from human tapeworm carriers (taeniosis) to bovines (cysticercosis) by excretion of eggs or proglottids containing
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The Resolution Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes
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Obesity and diabetes are affecting the peoples of the Americas at high and increasing rates. Nat
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The COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErs Study (HEROES): Regional Report from the Americas is a multicenter prospective cohort study to assess the impact o
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The objective of Health in the Americas: Overview of the Region of the Americas in
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Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on
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In preparing this paper, the Pharmacovigilance Group of the Pan American Health Organization’s Pan American Network for Drug Regulatory Harmonization (PANDRH) adopted
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Epidemiology, Control, and Financing
[Preface]. For more than forty years Primary Health Care (PHC) has been recognized as the cornerstone of an effective and responsive health system. The
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This report aims to improve the assessment of mental health needs in the Americas by providing an updated and nuanced picture of: (a)
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This document provides countries with recommendations for structuring a public health entomology laboratory network. The document will help countries to identify their areas of need and determine ho
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Under the theme Equity at the Heart of Health, this Plan seeks to catalyze efforts in Member States to reduce inequities in health within and betwe
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The 12th Meeting of the Regional Certification Commission (RCC) for the Polio Endgame in the Reg
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Abridged version. In this abridged version of the Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Follow-Up of at-risk neonates, we provide recommendations for
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This document focus on the direct consequences of the virus (morbidity and mortality) in specific populations
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Policy Brief November 2021 Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the ongoing antimicrobial resistance (AM
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For the 24th consecutive year, PAHO has published the report Health Situation in the Americas: Core Indicators featuring
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28 Dec 2020. The main objective of these guidelines is to provide tools for staff working in the field of immunization to support effective communication between health personnel
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Suicide is a serious public health problem surrounded by stigma, myths, and taboos. With an annual average of 81,746 suicide deaths in the period 2010–2014
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This regional report on the situation of tuberculosis (TB) in the Americas contains information from 2019, provided by the countries of
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Core Indicators 2019: Health Trends in the Americas starts with a demographic overview of the Americas to demonstrate how the Region has changed ov
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The chapter Closing the Gap: The Health Disparities of Older LGBTI People in the Americas, is pa
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The burden of diabetes is enormous, positioning it as one of the main challenges facing public health today. Currently, it is estimated that 62 million people are living with diabetes in
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Every day, schools engage in numerous activities that help promote the health and well-being of students, families, and communities. There is clear
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This report provides updated data on suicide in the Region of the Americas and is issued every five years, this being
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2nd edition. These guidelines include several notable changes from the first edition. For cutaneous leishmaniasis, ketoconazole has been removed from the list of treatment options;
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Action Plan for Implementation of Recommendations from the Evaluation of PAHO's Response to COVID-19
An external team evaluated PAHO’s response to COVID-19 to provide an independent assessment of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau’s (PASB) performance regarding preparedness for and response to
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This report provides insights into the prevalence of belief systems and gender norms among young women and men in
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Overview
Rev Panam Salud Publica 40(6), 2016
MMC Briefing Paper, February 2021
Child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) threaten the well-being of millions of girls around the world. Both have existed for generations
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound negative effect on the global economy and is occurring in th
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The Government of the Republic of Zambia has placed priority on ensuring that Zambians are healthy and productive as a catalyst to
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A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Clinical Infectious Diseases® 2016;62(12):1586–94
Violence against women and girls is widespread in the Region of the Americas, resulting in enormous consequences for
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This is the fifteenth edition of the lecture notes. They were first published in 1987 as a summary of the material used in
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Replacement of Annex 2 of WHO Technical Report Series, No. 964the only specific treatment for envenoming by snakebites. Antivenoms can prevent or reverse most of
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World's largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher
Chapter 7 from the book People's Movements in the 21st Century - Risks, Challenges
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Unchecked inequality and failure to protect the rights of poorest women could undermine peace and world’s development goals, new UNFPA report war
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Census Report Volume 4-B
In the 2014 Census, early-age mortality was measured from the responses to two simple retrospective questions on childbearing addressed to ever-married women aged 15 ...
In the 2014 Census, early-age mortality was measured from the responses to two simple retrospective questions on childbearing addressed to ever-married women aged 15 ...
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