Virtual Health Library: BIREMEBibliographic databases & scientific magazines of health information sources in Latin America & the Caribbean. The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, also known by its original name Regional Library of Medicine (BIREME, acronym in Portuguese), is a specialized center of the Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) oriented to technical cooperation in scientific health information. The headquarters of BIREME is located in Brazil, in the central campus of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) since its creation in 1967.