Castries, St. Lucia, 2 March 2023 (PAHO) – With the rainy season approaching in the Eastern Caribbean, personnel at the Ezra Long Laboratory of the Owen King European Union Hospital in St Lucia have been trained to detect mosquito-borne diseases such as, Dengue Fever, Zika, and Chikungunya viruses.
On 13-16 February 2023, PAHO Virologist Dr.…
Montevideo. March 3, 2023. Worldwide, an estimated 303,000 newborns die each year in the first four weeks of life due to congenital anomalies.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adverse perinatal outcomes and birth defects are responsible for the loss of 15 million years of healthy life due to premature death and disability.…
Belize City, Belize, March 2, 2023 - 35 professionals in Belize are better equipped to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls during health emergencies. With funding support from the Canada Caribbean Resilience Facility (CRF) of the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the Pan…
Team members of the PAHO/WHO The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands Country Office took a moment from their busy Saturday morning to support the Public Hospitals Authority's blood drive. After a national plea for blood donations, the PAHO Panthers answered the call to save a life, one drop at a time.
The Bahamas, like many countries around the…
Kingston, Jamaica, March 2, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The United States of America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have partnered to strengthen Jamaica’s health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a handover ceremony on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, Mr. Ian Stein, Pan American Health…
Belize City, Belize, March 1, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – To improve the quality of mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSS) for victims of road incidents and their families, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Government of Belize with financial support from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)…
Montevideo, March 1, 2023. FP2030 organised a webinar with regional experts to exchange on the challenges and opportunities in sexual and reproductive health and family planning for young people and Afro-Latino indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Rodolfo Gómez, regional advisor for Sexual and Reproductive Health at the…
In early 2023, students at selected high schools in Spanish Town participated in a global initiative,“Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data”, designed to develop, document and support the implementation of an intervention approach to improve the health of students. The intervention is being led by the National Council on Drug…
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, 27 February 2023 (PAHO) – Under the technical guidance of PAHO, the Government of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been rebuilding its critical infrastructures with greater resiliency and with specific emphasis on disaster risk and climate-smart mitigation, and adaptation design and construction standards…