WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa Etienne has attributed an increase in maternal mortality in the Americas, including the Caribbean, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to lack of access to timely care and disruptions to prenatal services.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is calling on the countries of the Americas, including the Caribbean, to redouble efforts to vaccinate children against polio.

Washington, DC – The number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine delivered by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to Latin America and the Caribbean reached 100 million today, thanks to the efforts of the organization’s Revolving Fund, the procurement and delivery partner of COVAX in the region.

With the recent commemoration of World Cancer Day, the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) used the opportunity to focus on its healthcare workers, by providing them with free cancer screening, education and wellness checks.

BELMOPAN, Belize – Prime Minister John Briceno says he will support a move to lift the curfew imposed here as part of the efforts aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has killed 645 and infected 56,256 others since March 2020.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – Acting Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tyhiesia Donald, Tuesday said there appear to be family members who are deliberately denying medication to elderly people and children diagnosed with non-communicable diseases (NCD) and other life-threatening ailments.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados National Registry (BNR) says colorectal cancer and other preventable cancers are on the rise in the country.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The St. Lucia government has announced new measures aimed at curbing continued spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) that up to Thursday had killed 267 people and infected 22, 426 others since March two years ago.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana Friday announced the immediate lifting of the nationwide curfew that had been put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic two years ago.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Friday published a guidance urging Latin American and Caribbean countries to step up surveillance efforts after floods to quickly identify and control disease outbreaks with serious public health impact.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa F. Etienne says complacency around mask wearing, travel and indoor gatherings created a perfect opportunity for the new Omicron variant to spread rapidly throughout the region and increase deaths, with many places remaining “just as they were before.” 

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Health Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill has announced that effective Monday, Barbados will no longer have a curfew as part of its Emergency Management (COVID-19)(Curfew) Directive.