The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) joined the Ministry of Health in providing community volunteers with key information and skills to enhance their contribution as part of the local community network in the prevention and control of COVID-19. Most of the volunteers were from the Red Cross Association of…
PAHO/WHO Belize continues to support the country in procuring the necessary equipment and materials to assist in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Thursday, April 16, 2020, PAHO/WHO Belize donated an additional three (3) testing kits of 96 reactions used to detect the virus to the Central Medical Laboratory of the Ministry…
Montevideo 16/04/2020 (CLAP)— Should positive COVID 19 pregnant women be attended at home if they are in home quarantine? Should we set up a delivery room in the isolation rooms? Is it recommended for COVID 19 suspected or confirmed mothers to continue breastfeeding? Can the infection be transmitted to the baby? These questions set the stage for…
PAHO/WHO for Suriname, 12 April 2020 - To facilitate the diagnosis of the COVID-19 virus Dr. Karen Lewis-Bell Representative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) officially handed over to Dr. Cleopatra Jessurun Director of the Ministry of Health, reagents for the diagnosis of COVID-19 at the Central Laboratory on 9 April 2020…
PAHO Jamaica donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to assist frontline workers in the COVID-19 response.
PAHO/WHO Representative for Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Bermuda, Dr Bernadette Theodore-Gandi, was pleased to donate vital protective equipment to provide a safe working environment for doctors and nurses working on the frontline…
World Health Day is celebrated every year on April 7, to commemorate the founding of the World Health Organization and to raise awareness of health-related issues. The theme of this year's celebration is nursing professionals and all health teams, for their heroic dedication and sacrifice in the global fight to prevent the spread of Covid-19.…
The increasing numbers of access to the information resources on the illness caused by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), available at the Virtual Health Library (VHL), show that BIREME is fulfilling its mission during the pandemic and demonstrates the relevance of its technical cooperation at national and international levels.
In view of the…
Paramaribo, Suriname, 04 April 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - The Bureau of Public Health has received support from PAHO and the IDB to launch Go.Data – an Outbreak Investigation Data Management System developed by WHO and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN).
On April 2, 2020 a training was conducted with the Epidemiology team at the…
Twenty-two years ago, on the 4th Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information (CRICS4) held in San José, Costa Rica, and through the San José Declaration “Hacia la Biblioteca Virtual en Salud”, a model of health information and knowledge management was born.
The Virtual Health Library (VHL), coordinated by BIREME, structures and guides…