The importance of sex education for adolescents is at the heart of a video by Emilia Sotelo from Chile🇨🇱.
Thanks to her creativity, she has been awarded 🥇 first place in our #AdolescentVoices contest!
Congratulations Emilia!
Share a coffee, share your story. ☕️
#DoYourShare to support people with mental health conditions – share a coffee and listen.
The more we talk about mental health, the more we reduce the stigma and discrimination. https://t.co/OifMhcEk1n
By 2030, 1 in 6 people will be 60 years old or older ➕ in the Americas 🌎.
Everyone has the right to thrive at any 👱🏼♀️👦🏽👴🏼 age!
Learn how you can support healthy aging ⬇️
youtu.be/DIQvCdp-CQI
Worldwide, about 99% of #rabies cases in humans are due to bites from infected dogs.
Unlike other diseases, we have the necessary tools to eradicate rabies through vaccination.
Get your dogs and vaccinated!
On the #InternationalDayOlderPersons 👵🏾 🧓🏾, learn about the Collaborating Centers on Healthy Aging that work with PAHO.
This collaboration provides knowledge & strengthens the action areas of the Decade of Healthy Aging in the region of the Americas.
In the Americas, the incidence of human rabies transmitted by dogs has reduced by almost 98%. 💉👩🏽🔬🐕🐈
Since 1983, PAHO has provided technical cooperation to all countries in the region through @panaftosa_inf.
Learn more 👉🏽 paho.org/en/topics/rabi… https://t.co/azz909xfwj
Today is the #InternationalDayofOlderPersons
👵🏽👵🏿👵🏼 Older women contribute to the well-being of their families and communities. Honor them by providing:
✅ Friendly environments that support their capacities.
✅ Health services that respond to their needs.
Health authorities in the region agreed on 13 resolutions with measures on mental health, genomic surveillance, polio, and equity in health.
At the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference, which closed today, they also elected the director of PAHO. #CSP30 paho.org/en/news/30-9-2…
PAHO will have a new director as of February 1, 2023: Jarbas Barbosa da Silva from 🇧🇷.
The organization's Member and Participating States elected him on September 28 at the 30th Pan American Sanitary Conference.
📽️⬇️ #CSP30
paho.org/en/news/28-9-2… https://t.co/3ByNTMKPYg
🌎 PAHO calls on countries to continue COVID-19 testing and increase vaccination to avoid a prolonged pandemic.
To date, more than 177 million cases 🦠 and 2.8 million deaths have been reported in the region. #CSP30 paho.org/en/news/30-9-2…
