Uruguay News News Uruguay » Health: Uruguay's Health Ministry launches vax campaign
Uruguay's Public Health Ministry (MSP) launched its 2025 vaccination campaign, focusing on influenza, measles, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to address seasonal and emerging health challenges, ...
News Uruguay » Health: PAHO/WHO supports Uruguay in defending tobacco control policies against tobacco industry challenge
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is supporting the Government of Uruguay as it defends its tobacco control policies against claims brought by the Philip Morris ...
News Uruguay » Health: Uruguay declares health emergency for avian influenza
Uruguay declared a nationwide health emergency on Friday after the discovery of the highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza in backyard poultry, according to officials. The Livestock, Agriculture and ...
News Uruguay » Health: PAHO recognizes Uruguay for defending tobacco control policies against commercial interests
Washington, D.C., 26 September 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) today recognized the Government of Uruguay for "its global leadership in ...
News Uruguay » Health: Philip Morris Tobacco vs. Uruguay: Health going head-to-head with trade
A Comment in this week's Lancet discusses legal action taken by the tobacco company Philip Morris against Uruguay, as the Latin American country takes steps to increase coverage on tobacco packs of ...
News Uruguay » Health: URUGUAY: Millennium Goal on Maternal Health in Sight
Uruguay is on the point of reaching the Millennium Development Goal for reducing the maternal mortality ratio, but it is still behind in other aspects of maternal health, like providing integrated ...
News Uruguay » Health: Uruguay’s health authorities warn of drowning on beaches
Montevideo, Dec 10 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay's health authorities are on the alert on Tuesday, as the southern summer season starts, bringing along risks of drowning on rivers and beaches of this ...
News Uruguay » Health: Uruguay Takes on Tobacco Giant Philip Morris
It started as a David vs. Goliath type of battle: Philip Morris International, the world’s second largest tobacco company, against the second smallest nation in Latin America, Uruguay – whose ...
News Uruguay » Health: Uruguay tobacco dispute heats up
Uruguay, a focus of ICIJ’s “Smoke Screen,” a series this week on tobacco industry lobbying in developing nations, is back in the news with President José Mujica’s blast against tobacco giant Philip ...
News Uruguay » Health: In a regional first, Uruguay passes a law allowing euthanasia
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can ...
News Uruguay » Health: Small Uruguay Is Big Proof That Committing To Public Health Can Contain COVID-19
A boy wearing a protective mask waves the Uruguayan flag in Montevideo. Uruguay has recorded the lowest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths per capita in South America, if not the entire western ...