LILACS – Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature – completes 40 years of operation. Coordinated regionally by BIREME/PAHO/WHO with a cooperative network of more than 900 institutions in 30 countries that continuously select, index, and update the database, it is recognized for its importance, scope, and support for the visibility of scientific output in […]
Climate change is no longer a distant prediction but a concrete reality that affects the lives and health of millions of people. Heat waves, floods, droughts, air pollution, and other extreme events have caused disease and economic and social losses around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 2030 and 2050, climate […]
Guatemala celebrated a strategic milestone for strengthening information management with the official relaunch of its Virtual Health Library – Guatemala VHL. The ceremony brought together representatives from PAHO/WHO, the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC), BIREME/PAHO/WHO, and national institutions that are part of the VHL Network, consolidating a collective effort that spans more than […]
BIREME/PAHO/WHO participated in the XXIII National Seminar on University Libraries (Seminário Nacional de Bibliotecas Universitárias, SNBU 2025), held from November 17 to 20, in São Paulo, Brazil, whose central topic was “Open Science: (im)possible reality?” It brought together experts, professionals, and students from across the country to discuss innovation, trends, and contemporary challenges facing university […]
The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Honduras Virtual Health Library – Honduras VHL, held on November 7, 2025, in Tegucigalpa, marks the consolidation of its trajectory as one of the most relevant initiatives for democratizing access to scientific health information in the country. The celebration brought together national authorities, health professionals, librarians, teachers, researchers, students, […]
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) continues to advance its mandate of strengthening access to strategic health information across the Region. In keeping with this, representatives from ten CARPHA Member States participated in a three-day FI-Admin Training Workshop, aimed at improving the indexing, management, and visibility of regional health literature. The workshop was facilitated by […]
BIREME/PAHO/WHO was present at the 3rd World Congress on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine(3rdWCTCIM), in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, when João Paulo Souza, the Director of BIREME participated representing WHO and PAHO highlighting the MTCI importance in the Americas Region and the pre-launch of the Global Library of Traditional Medicine (WHO TMGL) was made.The WHO TMGL is an […]
A highlight of the Information Products and Services of the Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information (BIREME) is available at https://www.bireme.org/, also within the context of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) flagship initiatives that include digital transformation in health information management. This highlights the operation and ongoing development of the […]
The new interface of the Virtual Health Library of the Ministry of Health (MoH Brazil VHL) was launched on October 21, 2025, at an event held at the Ministry of Health Library in Brasília (DF, Brazil). The event was attended by representatives from the four technical areas of the General Coordination of Documentation and Information (CGDI), the […]
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS for its acronym in Spanish) and the Center for Strategic Development and Information on Health and Social Security (CENDEISSS for its acronym in Spanish) officially launched the new platform of the Costa Rica Virtual Health Library (VHL), in an online event with the participation of national and international […]