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The Health Centers of El Salvador recognized by its good performance
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San Salvador, September 6, 2017. The Vice Minister of Health Services, Dr. Julio Robles Ticas and representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank, (IDB) deliver recognitions for performance in healthcare to the Family Health Community Teams (Equipos Comunitarios de Salud Familiar - Ecos)…
Roadmap for the Introduction of a New Dengue Vaccine
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Dengue remains the most common vector-transmitted disease in the world despite enormous prevention and control efforts by endemic countries and regions. Today, after decades of research, public health programs contemplate as part of the intervention to control the disease, a safe and effective…
Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: a guide for midwives and doctors – 2nd ed.
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Fuente: World Health Organization
Since the first edition was published in 2000, Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth has been translated into several languages and today is used widely in training for and the provision of emergency obstetric care. The new edition brings the guidance…
First Ladies of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago support the Global Strategy for the Health of Women…
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Kim Simplis Barrow and Reema Carmona participated in the subregional consultation organized by UN agencies and partners in Barbados for the adaptation of the Global Strategy to the context of the Caribbean
What lies ahead for the new head of the WHO?
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Fuente: Thomson Reuters Foundation News
LONDON, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health minister and foreign minister of Ethiopia, on Tuesday won the race to become the next director-general of the World Health Organisation.
“We need each country to develop an integrated program for women, children and adolescents”
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Santiago, 3 July 2017—Latin American and Caribbean countries today agreed to work to end the preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by 2030, and to develop effective actions for that population to prosper and transform the world.
Central America and the Dominican Republic identify actions for access to medicines and inputs for…
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San Salvador, El Salvador, March 10, 2017
The workshop "Identification of actions to improve access for medicines and supplies for maternal and child health care and sexual and reproductive health" was held in San Salvador from March 8 to 10. The event was coordinated by the Executive Secretariat…