RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she will be succeeded by Sebastian Piñera in March. Bachelet, who led UN […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. In the Americas, the percentage of adults who are obese is more than twice the world average, with more women affected than […]
GENEVA, Switzerland – A World Health Organization (WHO) report – Antibacterial agents in clinical development – shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Most of […]
SANTIAGO – The Chilean government has taken several actions to neutralize the incidence of HIV-positive cases, which scaled up 66 percent in the last six years. Health Minister Carmen Castillo has promised a greater control […]
LA PAZ – Bolivia is today an example for the world in terms of health due to the progress President Evo Morales has reached in this sphere, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) have […]
SANTIAGO – Due to the “2016 Report on Antimicrobial use in National Salmon Farming” published by Sernapesca, marine conservation organization Oceana recognized that the industry did diminish the use of antibiotics, however, this figure is […]
NEW DELHI – Zika virus disease has reached India, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirming first three cases in wetsern state of Gujarat. The WHO endorsed the findings of laboratory tests conducted in the […]
GUATEMALA CITY – Thousands of patients with advanced illnesses in Guatemala suffer unnecessarily from severe pain because they cannot get appropriate pain medications, Human Rights Watch said in a latest report. The 62-page report, “‘Punishing […]
By Darius Zheng/Special to The Santiago Times SANTIAGO – May 17 every year marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), conceived in commemoration of the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness […]
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