Promoting Regional Health Agenda, subject of a working meeting between ACTO and PAHO/WHO

Apr 18, 2018Sem categoria

Washington, April 18, 2017.-The Secretary General of ACTO, Ambassador María Jacqueline Mendoza Ortega met with the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Faustina Etienne at the Pan American Sanitary Bureau in Washington D.C. on April 17 and 18 to present the activities developed by the Permanent Secretariat in the areas of Public Health, Environmental Health, Indigenous Health and Knowledge Management in the Amazon Region. During the official visit, the Work Plan of the ACTO-PAHO/WHO Work was also carried out together with the different PAHO/WHO directors within the Framework Agreement of Cooperation that has existed between the two institutions since 2015 and which was renewed on July last year.

The visit was also attended by Dr. Luis Francisco Sánchez Otero (Health Coordinator) and Ms. Sharon Austin (Coordinator of Indigenous Affairs) who, together with the Secretary General, presented the current panorama of Health in the Amazon.

In the different working meetings, were established between the two institutions work topics and the need to promote the ACTO’s Regional Health Agenda and to strengthen the work on indigenous and intercultural health issues, as well as the work in the Issues of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Development of Sustainable Development Goals and support for minority, vulnerable and migrant communities. Work activities for border health and gender issues, management of demographic and Public Health information in the region, and subregional cooperation among countries were also proposed.

This activity was developed with the support of the Office for South American Cooperation of PAHO/WHO, with which the development of the interinstitutional work plan will continue.

Source: ACTO

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