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Epistemonikos – a collaborative and multilingual database that gathers relevant evidence for health decision-making – will be integrated into the Virtual Health Library (VHL), a database of the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information (BIREME) which will expand existing resources for health decision making.

In World Diabetes Day 2018, the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) unites with partners around the world to highlight the impact of diabetes in families and the role of family members in supporting prevention, early diagnosis and correct management of diabetes. BIREME supports locally developed intersectoral actions and supports, stimulates and promotes the practice of physical activities and healthy lifestyles among its collaborators through awareness campaigns, seminars with health professionals, nutritionists and physical educators.

The work performed by the team of the Executive Secretariat of the Nursing Virtual Health Library (VHL) received first prize at the “Concurso de poster de redes e innovaciones en el cuidado” held by the XVI Coloquio Panamericano de Investigación en Enfermería. This year, the central topic was “The Contribution of Nursing in Primary Health Care for Universal Health” and relied on the support of the Pan American Health Organization and the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing and Obstetrics.

Within the framework of technical cooperation with key countries, BIREME participated in the III International Congress on Natural, Traditional Ancestral Medicine and Complementary Therapies in Managua, Nicaragua. The mission was an opportunity to reactivate the National BVS Nicaragua, whose coordination will be transferred from the Ministry of Health to the Universidad Nacional Autônoma de Nicaragua en Managua (National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Managua).

BIREME was part of the group of PAHO officials who participated at Workday Rising 2018, the annual Workday user conference, the system used by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau Management Information System (PMIS). The event took place in Las Vegas, United States, on October 1-4, 2018. The team identified 12 key initiatives to improve and streamline the management of PMIS in various administrative processes that will be considered for implementation by the end of 2019.

With the objective of presenting the results obtained with the project “Knowledge Management in Human Resources in Health”, BIREME participated in the VI Jornadas del Personal del Sistema Nacional Integrado de Salud de Uruguay (VI Staff Days of the National Integrated Health System of Uruguay). The main results presented include the repository for scientific and technical production identified by the Network of Observatories in Human Resources in Health of Latin America and the Caribbean (LA&C), the search interface with scientific and technical literature on Human Resources in Health in the VHL and the web site, integrated to the Regional Observatory on Human Resources in Health, which promotes access to all of these products.