, , Home About the Author About this Blog My Parenting Library Best of Advertise Subscribe PhD in Parenting Blog Give The Money Back , PAHO Influence , Transparency and Ethics in Global Health Policy by phdinparenting on November 24, 2012 Last month , Reuters reported that the Pan American Health Organization PAHO which has a dual role as the regional office for the World Health Organization for the Americas and the health agency of the Organization of American States , began taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the private sector for the first time in its 100+ year existence . According to the Reuters article by Duff Wilson and Adam Kerlin Accepting industry funding goes against WHO’s worldwide policies . Its Geneva headquarters and five other regional offices have been prohibited