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News Uruguay » Montevideo » Health: Uruguay's Health Ministry launches vax campaign

News channel or source: https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/17/uruguay-s-health-ministry-launches-vax-campaign

Published on: Sunday 16 March 2025

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 » Montevideo » Health: Salud Ambiental Montevideo

News channel or source: https://www.buffalo.edu/globalhealthequity/global-projects/exposome/salud-ambiental-montevideo.html

Published on: Sunday 26 July 2026

Childhood exposure to metals, pesticides and other neurotoxins can result in irreversible neuropsychological impairments. Whereas metal exposures have declined in the general U.S. population and ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Health: Exploring Neighborhood Impacts on Childhood Wellbeing in Montevideo, Uruguay

News channel or source: https://www.buffalo.edu/globalhealthequity/student-work/student-projects/exploring-neighborhood-impacts-on-childhood-wellbeing-in-montevideo--uruguay.html

Published on: Thursday 02 June 2022

Exposure to metals is often a result of where children and their families live. Over 90% of the Uruguayan population live in an urban area like Montevideo. Their built environment – where they live, ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Health: In a regional first, Uruguay passes a law allowing euthanasia

News channel or source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/2025/10/15/uruguay-passes-law-to-allow-euthanasia

Published on: Wednesday 15 October 2025

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 » Montevideo » Health: Uruguay drought: Capital hit by water shortages

News channel or source: https://www.dw.com/en/uruguay-drought-capital-montevideo-hit-by-water-shortages/a-66075991

Published on: Thursday 29 June 2023

Montevideo is experiencing its worst drought in over 70 years. The situation is being worsened by locals hoarding water supplies. Uruguay was the first country in the world to enshrine the right to ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Health: URUGUAY: Millennium Goal on Maternal Health in Sight

News channel or source: https://www.ipsnews.net/2010/07/uruguay-millennium-goal-on-maternal-health-in-sight/

Published on: Sunday 25 July 2010

MONTEVIDEO, Jul 26 2010 (IPS) - 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 ...