Kingston, Jamaica, November 19, 2020 (PAHO) - In June 2020, countries and territories in the Caribbean Region initiated the process to resume non-essential international travel in order to reactivate their economies heavily affected by measures adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In that context, on 9 July 2020, the Country Office of…
Belize City, Belize, November 18, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Federal Ministry of Health of Germany (BMG) donated a portable X-Ray machine to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority (KHMHA) for use at the COVID-19 Critical Care Unit. As a follow-up to a ventilator that…
Since 2013 the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Belize office has been organizing an influenza vaccination campaign. Done in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the campaign targets UN staff, family, and PAHO neighbours in the country office’s compound, encouraging them to get a yearly dose of the…
St. Kitts and Nevis’s COVID-19 fight received a boost thanks to a donation of medical equipment on Friday 13 November, 2020
Bridgetown, Barbados, November 17, 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—The Federation received 35,200 respiratory masks, 10,500 isolation gowns, and 3,600 goggles, through PAHO with financial assistance from the Government of Canada. Dr.…
About 30 million babies are born prematurely per year in the world. Of these, 1.2 million are born in the region of the Americas. Montevideo, November 17th, 2020 (CLAP/PAHO)‒ Premature babies do not reach the appropriate weight, are exposed to getting sick, require specialized attention, care to survive, to grow and develop healthy.A…
Bridgetown/Washington D.C., 11 November 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – Several regional and international experts came together in a virtual webinar on November 9 to discuss the need for the implementation of front-of-package labeling (FOPL) as a right to health for citizens of the region, and noted that the logical choice of system should be based on the…
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 11 November 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—On Tuesday 10th November 2020, the Pan American Health Organization handed over 8 laptops along with 150 jump drives to the Mental Health Unit of the Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. These will strengthen capacity for data collection and delivery of mental health services, with an…
Belize City, Belize, November 10, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – To strengthen the COVID-19 response in emergency management and surveillance at Belize’s points of entry, and mental health and psychosocial support in response to COVID-19, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Pan American Health Organization/World Health…
São Paulo, 10 November 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—LILACS – Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature – celebrates its 35 years sharing experiences, knowledge, information and evidence on health in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the motto “Solidarity is about sharing”. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, LILACS network professionals…