Pan American Health Organization | Organización Panamericana de la Salud

Haiti’s Ministry of Health (MSPP) is nearing completion of its vaccination campaign against cholera, having reached more than 729,000 people with vaccines in Sud and Grand Anse departments, areas ravaged by Hurricane Matthew.

Today, UN human rights experts told countries that they need to do more to support and protect breastfeeding as a human right, including ending the inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes and other foods intended for infants and young children.

Some 50 health care facilities in seven Caribbean countries are being improved and retrofitted as part of the SMART Health Care Facilities project, with $38.3 million in financial support from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (UK aid). The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Health Emergencies Department, in partnership with the Ministries of Health, is assessing some 600 health centers, hospitals, and similar facilities in Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,  Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana and Belize.