GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana is seeking assistance from the European Union towards further developing its healthcare and pharmaceuticals as the EU’s Health and Pharma Investment Mission ends a three-day visit later on Wednesday.
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ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government says it is seeking to raise US$100 million in philanthropic capital grants for the construction of a new hospital.
GENEVA – Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO), including the Caribbean, Tuesday formally adopted by consensus the world’s first Pandemic Agreement.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government Wednesday signed a 15-year collaboration and licensing agreement with the Mount Sinai International that will allow for the General Hospital here to become an affiliate US-based medical institution.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has issued a new Rapid Risk Assessment (RRA) on yellow fever in the Americas, including the Caribbean, which it said shows that the risk to public health remains high due to continued human cases in endemic countries of the region.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Amid confirmation of the first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Brazil, Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining is intensifying its efforts to keep the virus at bay. The ministry, through its Veterinary Services Division (VSD), has adopted a strict prevention strategy to protect the local poultry industry from the highly contagious Avian Influenza virus.
While traveling, Natasha Acoff experienced numbness on her left side, leading to an ER visit and a multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. Given a pamphlet on the disease, she recalled feeling terrified for her future.
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuba has been elected a member of the World Health Assembly General Committee, a body made up of 17 nations taking decision on the performance of the institution.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO) has called for more to be done at the primary health care level to tackle hypertension in the Americas.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The 69th annual health research conference of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Pubic Health Agency (CARPHA) began here on Thursday, with delegates being told that the region has made some advances in improving mental health care, particularly in mental health legislation.
GENEVA – The Pan American health Organization (PAHO), Tuesday signed a Letter of Intent to boost cooperation in organ, tissue, and cell donation and transplantation as well as to expand equitable access to these procedures in Latin America and the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAH) says three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have eliminated mother to child transmission of HIV and syphilis.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Two projects aimed at strengthening the Caribbean’s ability to combat the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been launched here.
