Paramaribo, March 23, 2023 (PAHO) – Influenza pandemics are recurring events that pose a major global health security threat due to their unpredictability and their potentially devastating consequences on health and economies around the world. These events are difficult to predict, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as the 2009 influenza A…
Montevideo, March 23, 2023. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) published the regional progress report of the Towards the Elimination of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and Chagas Disease in the Region of the Americas (EMTCT Plus) initiative, with a 10-year assessment that includes some indications of the impact of the Covid-19…
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 20 March 2023 (PAHO) – The Georgetown Smart Health Centre was today officially handed over to the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment as part of the ‘Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. The USD 1,121,623.79 retrofitting upgrade was funded by UKaid from the Foreign…
Montevideo. March 22, 2023. On 17 and 18 March, the Latin American Centre for Perinatology - Women's Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP/WR), received at its headquarters in Uruguay the director of the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Pascale Allotey; the head of the HRP Secretariat, Craig Lissner;…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 21 March 2023 [PAHO] -- Guyana received 13,440 doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the Government of Spain. Four thousand, eight hundred (4,800) children's vaccines were received and handed to the Ministry of Health yesterday. The vaccine arrived in two shipments. The second shipment of eight thousand, six hundred and forty…
São Paulo, March 20, 2023. Due to the dynamics of knowledge production, the revision of thematic categories of the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) thesaurus is a continuous need in the context of terminological updating.
Regional guidelines for the construction and management of controlled vocabularies suggest that the addition of new…
Hamilton, Bermuda - March 16, 2023: Bermuda’s Ministry of Health convened its first sensitization and capacity-building meeting to implement HEARTS in the Americas on Thursday, March 16, 2023. In attendance were the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ayoola Oyinloye, Director of the Department of Health, Mr. David Kendell; Bermuda Health Council,…
PAHO/WHO Representative Suriname Dr. Lilian Reneau-Vernon, PAHO/WHO Advisor, Health Systems and Services Dr. Rosmond Adams, and Deputy Director of Medical Mission Dr. Maureen Wijngaarde-van Dijk, and Dr. Bianca Jubitana during the visit at the Medical Mission office
Paramaribo, Suriname, March 14, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The site visit by the PAHO/WHO…
Kingston, Jamaica - Tuesday, March 14, 2023, marked a historic moment as the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW), Jamaica, launched a community initiative at the Spanish Court Hotel to promote mental wellness – the Problem Management Plus (PM+). The launch saw over one hundred and twenty persons in attendance.
PM+ was developed and tested by…