Nassau, Bahamas, 07 August 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - On 06 August 2020, The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) donated laboratory equipment, COVID-19 tests, laptops, mobile phones and modems to the Ministry of Health (MOH) of The Bahamas.
At a ceremony held at MOH’s Head Office, Dr. Esther de Gourville, PAHO/World Health Organization…
Video - Webinar on Scaling up the Protection, Promotion and Support to Breastfeeding during COVID-19
Bridgetown, Barbados, 07 August 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - This webinar, hosted by the PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries was organized to generate a forum for discussing the current challenges that may influence the promotion, protection and support to breastfeeding and presenting country experiences which we hope will result…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 02 August 2020 (PAHO/WHO) — On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization sent the islands of Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States along with its regional neighbours, into a heightened form of anxiety when its Director General Dr Tedros declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
Simultaneously, some of our Eastern…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 01 August 2020 (PAHO/WHO) — World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is a global campaign coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) to raise awareness and galvanize action on themes related to breastfeeding. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policymakers, the…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 31 July 2020 (PAHO/WHO) — Caribbean nations are making efforts to strengthen COVID-19 testing as countries reopen their borders to regional and extra-regional travel.
The PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries hosted a webinar to discuss Scaling up COVID-19 Testing in the Eastern Caribbean…
In order to maintain effective communication with the members of the Advisory Committee (AC) and share partial information on the progress made on the recommendations from its members at the VIII Session held in October 2019, BIREME/PAHO/WHO organized an Ad Hoc online Session of the AC on July 30, 2020. On the occasion, the implementation…
Continuing the series Strengthening Health Information Networks, the second webinar of the Virtual Health Library Network (VHL Network) and BiblioSUS Network was held on July 29, with the theme “The importance of bibliographic control in the health area: expanding visibility and access”, which was presented by three experienced information…
The campaign theme for this year’s World Hepatitis Day is “Hepatitis Free Future”. In May 2016, the World Health Assembly endorsed the Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS) on viral hepatitis, which proposes to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030 (defined as 90% reduction in incidence and 65% reduction in mortality with…
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 27 July 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—On Friday 24th July 2020, representatives from the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Trinidad and Tobago Country Office, the United Nations, The World Food Programme and the Canadian High Commission joined the Ministry of Health (MoH) to receive their shipment of…