BIREME/PAHO/WHO provides an Evidence Maps Portal to promote the dissemination of and access to a collection of Evidence Maps, with an interface in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The portal, which is already available, aims to gather and integrate all Evidence Maps developed within the VHL Network and provides access to 36 evidence maps in three main collections.
At the beginning of June 2022, two PAHO/WHO Country Offices (Colombia and Venezuela) and two Specialized Centers (BIREME and PANAFTOSA) that are in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, were involved in a joint and effective action to send 2,000 human rabies vaccines to help handle an emergency in Venezuela. This action became a successful regional cooperation between the different PAHO/WHO agencies in the countries.
BIREME/PAHO/WHO, the Executive Secretariat and the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health of the Ministry of Health of Brazil coordinate the development and implementation of the VHL for indigenous populations, aiming to expand access to and use of scientific and technical information in health services offered to the indigenous population, contributing to strengthening the SUS and improving the Indigenous Health Care Subsystem.
MEDLIST is a drug and device list portal with comments and annotations, as well as being a component of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Regional Platform for Innovation and Access to Health and Technology, developed by the Pan American Health Organization Health/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) with support from BIREME. The platform allows access to the WHO Model Essential Medicines Lists and its main objective is to support users, mainly policymakers, through unified access to national, regional, and international medicines lists.
We highlight the results of the first year in the context of the technical cooperation project between BIREME/PAHO/WHO and the Secretary of Health of the Municipality of São Paulo (SMS-São Paulo) for the updating and maintenance of Secretary of Health of the Municipality of São Paulo Virtual Health Library (SMS São Paulo VHL) – Phase III, through the strengthening of capacities in information and knowledge management.
The course Leishmaniasis en las Américas: Diagnóstico y Tratamiento (Leishmaniasis in the Americas: Diagnosis and Treatment) is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in partnership with BIREME and the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) to train health professionals that work at different levels of care and educational training at undergraduate and graduate levels.
World Food Safety Day was celebrated on June 7th to raise awareness and inspire action to help prevent, detect, and manage food-borne hazards. BIREME/PAHO/WHO makes the VHL Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional available, coordinated by INCAP and developed by Guatemala, with scientific and technical information on Public Health, Health, Food, Nutrition, and Food and Nutritional Safety.
Climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Health is and will be affected by climate change through direct and indirect impacts. World Environment Day, celebrated every June 5th since 1973, is the largest global dissemination platform for environmental issues and serves as a warning to governments and populations about the seriousness of our planet’s situation. Get to know the information sources that BIREME discloses on the subject.
ACURIL 2022 is holding its 2022 conference under the theme Change Management and Resilience: Proactive Action in Caribbean Libraries, Museums and Archives. A pre-conference event was held on May 26 with the Virtual Health Library Content roundtable featuring presentations by Amanda Wilson, Chief, Office of Engagement and Training at NLM, Sebastián García Saisó, Director of the EIH Department and Acting Director of BIREME, and Marcia Y. Barretto, ITI/GA Coordinator at BIREME. While Amanda Wilson spoke about NLM’s strategy for the period 2022-2036, when the institution will celebrate the bicentennial of its founding, Sebastián García and Marcia Barretto presented the topic Virtual Health Library: resilience and innovation towards the future.
Within the framework of the 3rd week of the Colombia VHL and the 24th National Conference on Updating and Training of Health Information Units-UNIRECS, on May 11 and 13, 2022, the Window of Knowledge and Toolbox (SDGs) Sustainable Development Goals of the Colombia VHL was launched. BIREME had a relevant participation, in the inauguration of the event and in the alignment with open science.