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Alba Consuelo Flores Ferrufino (Danlí, November 30, 1965) is a Honduran pedagogue and civil servant, current Secretary of Health of the Republic, a position that she assumed on December 27, 2018, under the presidency of Juan Orlando Hernández. [1]
The Ministry of Health in Honduras provides care to almost 90% of the population, but there is still little provision for the rural population, and there is a serious shortage of doctors. The ratio of doctor to population in 1984 was one to 1,510. In 2015, there were 10,995 registered doctors.
Miriam Miranda is a Honduran activist who advocates for the human and environmental rights of the Garífuna people. As the leader of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), Miranda has coordinated efforts to counter land theft by big tourism businesses, reclaim ancestral territories formerly belonging to Garífuna communities, stop drug traffickers, promote sustainable ...
The American Legation officially opened on February 22, 1856. The first U.S. Minister Resident to present his credentials in Honduras was James R. Partridge on April 25, 1862. [1] On March 23, 1943, an agreement between the United States and several American Republics including Honduras elevated the status of their legations to embassies.
In January 2014, the government of Honduras approved a general budget of 183,635,281,000 lempiras ($9 billion), allocated as follows: 179.681 million for the executive branch; 1.864 million for the judicial branch; 2.089 million for the legislative branch [5] [full citation needed]
UNITEC (Central American Technological University) is a private higher education institution founded in 1987 by a group of Honduran businessmen and professors of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), including William Chong Wong, [1] who envisioned the creation of an institute that had as its main focus the teaching of the sciences to its students without compromising their ...
The Universidad Católica de Honduras, officially named "Universidad Católica de Honduras Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz" (Catholic University of Honduras Our Lady Queen of Peace), or "UNICAH" as it is affectionately called among its students, is a private university in Honduras run by the Catholic Church. It has 11 campuses in various cities ...
Honduran nationality law is regulated by the Constitution, the Migration and Aliens Act (Spanish: Ley de Migración y Extranjería), the 2014 Law on Protection of Honduran Migrants and their Families (Spanish: Ley de Protección de los Hondureños Migrantes y sus Familiares) and relevant treaties to which Honduras is a signatory. [1]