Basseterre, St. Kitts, 8 March 2023 (PAHO) - The Joseph Nathaniel France (JNF) General Hospital in St. Kitts and Nevis is now certified as being Baby-Friendly. Certification was granted in October 2022 and the official handing over of the plaque took place on 7 March 2023.
To be certified as baby-friendly the Federation of St. Kitts and…
24 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023
Paramaribo, March 23, 2023 (PAHO) – Influenza pandemics are recurring events that pose a major global health security threat due to their unpredictability and their potentially devastating consequences on health and economies around the world. These events are difficult to predict, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as the 2009 influenza A…
23 Mar 2023
Montevideo, March 23, 2023. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) published the regional progress report of the Towards the Elimination of HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and Chagas Disease in the Region of the Americas (EMTCT Plus) initiative, with a 10-year assessment that includes some indications of the impact of the Covid-19…
23 Mar 2023
Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 20 March 2023 (PAHO) – The Georgetown Smart Health Centre was today officially handed over to the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment as part of the ‘Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. The USD 1,121,623.79 retrofitting upgrade was funded by UKaid from the Foreign…
22 Mar 2023
The survey will collect information about the health, lifestyle and mental health of Aruba population that will help health decision makers.
Oranjestad, 22 March, 2023.- The field work of the National Health Survey, STEPS 2023, started this month. The 35 data collectors trained by the Department of Public Health, with the collaboration of…
22 Mar 2023
Montevideo. March 22, 2023. On 17 and 18 March, the Latin American Centre for Perinatology - Women's Health and Reproductive Health (CLAP/WR), received at its headquarters in Uruguay the director of the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Pascale Allotey; the head of the HRP Secretariat, Craig Lissner; and…
21 Mar 2023
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 21 March 2023 [PAHO] -- Guyana received 13,440 doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the Government of Spain. Four thousand, eight hundred (4,800) children's vaccines were received and handed to the Ministry of Health yesterday. The vaccine arrived in two shipments. The second shipment of eight thousand, six hundred and forty…
20 Mar 2023
São Paulo, March 20, 2023. Due to the dynamics of knowledge production, the revision of thematic categories of the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) thesaurus is a continuous need in the context of terminological updating.
Regional guidelines for the construction and management of controlled vocabularies suggest that the addition of new…
14 Mar 2023
PAHO/WHO Representative Suriname Dr. Lilian Reneau-Vernon, PAHO/WHO Advisor, Health Systems and Services Dr. Rosmond Adams, and Deputy Director of Medical Mission Dr. Maureen Wijngaarde-van Dijk, and Dr. Bianca Jubitana during the visit at the Medical Mission office
Paramaribo, Suriname, March 14, 2023 (PAHO/WHO) – The site visit by the PAHO/WHO…