Pan American Health Organisation
ALL HAZARDS
Pan American Health Organisation
The Pan American Health Organization's Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program has a new, redesigned Web site that provides an overview of the program; a section on "Dealing With Disasters" that includes discussion groups, donation guidelines, an index of contact persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, and situation reports; a catalog of publications, including full-text on-line documents and newsletters from PAHO; a link to the Regional Disaster Center in San Jose, Costa Rica, and its extensive database (11,000 documents) of hazards/disaster literature; information on PAHO's Humanitarian supply management system (SUMA); and extensive links to other disaster management resources on the Internet. There is also a special section on El Nino; links to World Health Organization Collaborating Centers; the latest issue of the Disaster Section's newsletter, Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas; and the findings from the PAHO/WHO conference on "Health Crises,Disasters, and the Internet" held last fall in Bogotá, Colombia. The Web page is also available in Spanish.
