WASHINGTON, DC – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, on Friday said strategies to expand Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, combined with innovative screening and early treatment have made cervical cancer the first cancer in the world that can realistically be eliminated.

 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is making available a loan totaling US$9.97 million to Grenada to improve the island’s overall health infrastructure.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging people to protect themselves against the adverse health effects of a Saharan dust plume covering many parts of the Caribbean.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre (BCHC) has welcomed the publication of the island’s first national plan to combat cancer through prevention, early detection and treatment, describing it as a “as “significant advancement in Bermuda’s healthcare landscape”.

NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean-American New York State Assemblyman, Brian Cunningham, has vowed never to support the closure of SUNY Downstate in Central Brooklyn in the heart of the Caribbean community there.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – A planned upgrade of the St. Lucia health systems , made possible through a US$9.86 million loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), financed by the European Investment Bank (EIB), will begin shortly following a launch on Thursday.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew has called on parents in the twin island Federation to understand the procedure to secure financial assistance from the Children’s Medical Fund.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaican government is providing more than one billion dollars for the country’s National HIV/AIDS Response in Jamaica Project as it seeks to further decrease infections in high-risks group.

OLSO, Norway – The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at enhancing regional epidemic and pandemic preparedness.

WASHINGTON, DC – In a new epidemiological alert, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has reiterated its call to countries in the region to intensify efforts and actions to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the main vector that transmits dengue fever. 

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it has entered into a new partnership agreement with the US-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help strengthen equitable access to childhood cancer medications for children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has published  a collection of resources aimed at assisting healthcare teams in improving the management of cardiovascular risk conditions and hypertension in primary healthcare settings across the Americas.