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…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 13 March, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – In an effort to better understand the perceptions of Caribbean young people from 13 to 29 years old, from Barbados, seven Eastern Caribbean Countries and Trinidad and Tobago, PAHO has engaged UNICEF to conduct a survey on the UReport platform, starting on March 13, 2023. This survey follows…
São Paulo, May 13, 2023. The Course on Access and Use of Scientific Information in Health, as a product aligned with the BIREME/PAHO/WHO Biannual Work Plan, contemplating the activity related to Information Services, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Brazil, is available in open access in the Virtual Campus for Public Health since…