WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has called on countries of the Americas, including the Caribbean, to strengthen surveillance, including laboratory detection and genomic sequencing of confirmed cases, following the identification of a new variant of mpox virus, Clade I (Clade Ib), in the sub-Saharan African Region.  

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – President of the Council of the Medical Board of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Neil Singh, says a number of Venezuelan migrants are performing duties here as medical practitioners without the necessary clearance from the council.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The United States,  through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in partnership with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Guyana has donated 20,000 malaria rapid diagnostic tests to the Guyana National Malaria Programme. The donation is in response to a malaria test kit shortage in the country and will greatly strengthen the country’s malaria response.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The United States and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) have announced the next step in their long-standing partnership aimed at helping the Ministry of Health eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) as a public health concern in Guyana.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, three years after the last outbreak claimed at least seven lives, most of them children.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued an epidemiological alert regarding possible cases of expectant mother-to-child transmission of the Oropouche virus (OROV) that was first detected in Trinidad and Tobago in 1955.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Health authorities Friday sought to clarify the  procedure for reporting confirmed cases and deaths related to dengue fever as Trinidad and Tobago recorded its sixth death from the virus.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The legendary former West Indies cricket captain, Sir Clive Lloyd, Sunday appealed to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders to focus on combatting prostate cancer as they had done to non-communicable diseases in the past.

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands – The Ministry of Health has launched a sexual health campaign dubbed ‘Wrap it Up’ to help reduce high-risk sexual behaviors locally.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is reiterating a call for regional countries to take a whole of society approach to support breastfeeding, implement and reinforce the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – UNAIDS says that the world is at a critical moment that will determine whether world leaders meet their commitment to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago health authorities Friday said the country has recorded more than 200 cases of dengue since the start of the year, but downplayed suggestions of an outbreak of the virus here.