Guyana is moving forward towards the reduction of maternal deaths, through the initiative of Zero Maternal Death from Hemorrhage and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, despite the challenges in the remote hinterland area
Family planning is one of the pillars of strategies to end preventable maternal mortality. Contraceptive methods reduce…
President Santokhi with PAHO/WHO representative Dr. Karen Lewis-Bell, and the Minister of Health Amar Ramadhin (Left to right) at the opening of the first Open-Air Gym in Commewijne opened on World Health Day 2022
The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) provided funds to support the request by the Ministry of Health in Suriname to…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 7 April (PAHO/WHO) Staff of the Barbados office of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today came together to start a kitchen garden and take part in a quiz to mark World Health Day under the theme, Our Planet, Our Health.
With many staff not working from the office for just over two years because of the pandemic,…
Montevideo, 04/06/2022 (CLAP/PAHO)- More than 50 people participated in the kickoff of the diploma course on the Health Promotion and Empowerment for Maternal and Neonatal Health (ProSaMNe, for its acronym in Spanish), a technical cooperation tool promoted by the Latin American Center for Perinatology (CLAP) of the Pan American Health…
World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948.
Each year for this date, a theme is chosen that highlights an area of priority concern for WHO. In the face of the current pandemic, a polluted planet, and an increasing incidence of diseases,…
Kingston, Jamaica, April 6, 2022 (PAHO/WHO) – Mr. Ian Stein, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands has issued a warning about the impact of climate change on health.
“Climate change is devastating to our environment and causes adverse health effects.…
PWR of Belize, Dr. Noreen Jack and CEO of the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Osmond Martinez, officially signed the Mental Health and Psychosocial Consultancy Agreement.
Also, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Road Safety Program, this agreement will benefit and provide proper mental health and…
In order to meet regional needs for indexing and retrieving scientific and technical literature from Latin America and the Caribbean, the DeCS/MeSH thesaurus was created in 1986 as a Portuguese and Spanish version of the terms and thematic categories of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus and expanded with one more category,…
Georgetown 31 March 2022- PAHO Guyana, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), implemented a national consultation process for the proposed Package of Essential Health Services for Primary Health Care of Guyana.
In his opening remarks at a consultation with all Directors and Heads of Units of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony…