KINGSTON, Jamaica –A new report on the global HIV response released on Wednesday shows that during the last two years of the coronavirus pandemic and other global crises, progress against the HIV pandemic has faltered, resources have shrunk, and millions of lives are at risk.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government will increase access to mental health services for young people under its revised 2017-2030 National Youth Policy, according to Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams.

HAVANA, Cuba – Health Minister Carilda Peña Garcia has voiced concern about a spike in the mosquito borne Dengue Fever as three serotypes of Dengue Fever out of four present in Latin America and the Caribbean, are in Cuba. 

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO), has declared the monkeypox outbreak at global health emergency.     

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago's government Wednesday said it had been forced to end the booster program for people between the ages of 12 to 18 because they had failed to make use of thousands of doses of a vaccine supplied by the United states that expired at the end of last month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Saturday confirmed its first case of the Monkeypox virus with officials indicating that the island is fully prepared to handle any cases of the virus that has already been detected in two other CARICOM countries, namely Jamaica and the Bahamas.

GENEVA – The first World Health Organization (WHO) report on the health of refugees and migrants shows poorer health outcomes for many vulnerable ones from the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Omicron BA.5 subvariant, discovered here just over a week ago, is responsible for a rapid increase in COVID-19 infections, Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram disclosed on Wednesday.

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) say that the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the largest continued backslide in vaccinations in three decades.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Bermuda has become the latest Caribbean country to confirm a case of the Monkeypox virus, while St. Lucia said it is monitoring six suspected cases, including four with no travel history out of the island.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) is urging people here to continue exercising greater care as the island faces the threat of infections from the more transmissible COVID-19 BA4 and BA5 variants.

WASHINGTON, DC – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa Etienne Wednesday warned that as the Omicron sub-lineages drive a new wave of COVID-19 infections and cases of the Monkeypox virus continue to rise, countries should work together to meet the growing demand for vaccines, medicines, and other health equipment in the region.