Port Antonio residents will soon benefit from a health centre with greater protections against extreme weather conditions, while offering upgraded disability access and energy efficiency.
This is the first health care facility in Jamaica to be retrofitted in this phase of the Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean project, financed by…
The Ministry of Health in Collaboration with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and the Pan American Health Organization/World health Organization (PAHO/WHO) unveiled a billboard to mark the start of the upgrades to be carried out at the Leonora Cottage Hospital, under the Smart Health care Facilities Project, in region…
KINGSTON, 1 December 2020—On the occasion of World AIDS Day, Caribbean AIDS response stakeholders are calling for countries in the region to adopt HIV self-testing. During the virtual launch of the “In Your Hands” Caribbean HIV self-testing campaign yesterday, partners advocated for self-testing policies to be developed and implemented as part of…
PAHO Suriname and the Blood Bank of the Suriname Red Cross are partnering to boost donations of blood during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has reduced the supply of blood and blood components and adversely affected blood system activities in many countries. In Suriname, this has been no different according to the Director of the Suriname Red…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 November 2020 - Staff at the PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries joined the global movement in support of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This year’s theme is “Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!” with a specific focus on COVID-19. Like in…
The Caribbean is being advised to contain the spread of dengue, as 2.7 million cases, many of whom are children, have been recorded in the Caribbean, Latin America and North America thus far for 2020.
Dr. Yitades Gebre, PAHO/WHO Representative for Barbados and the ECC, recently stated: “We need to do it all – governments need to provide…
Kingston, Jamaica, November 19, 2020 (PAHO) - In June 2020, countries and territories in the Caribbean Region initiated the process to resume non-essential international travel in order to reactivate their economies heavily affected by measures adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In that context, on 9 July 2020, the Country Office of…
Belize City, Belize, November 18, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Federal Ministry of Health of Germany (BMG) donated a portable X-Ray machine to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority (KHMHA) for use at the COVID-19 Critical Care Unit. As a follow-up to a ventilator that…
Since 2013 the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Belize office has been organizing an influenza vaccination campaign. Done in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the campaign targets UN staff, family, and PAHO neighbours in the country office’s compound, encouraging them to get a yearly dose of the…