Bridgetown, Barbados, October 20, 2020 – Caribbean youth advocates have called for action on areas of priority for their peers with the launch of the Caribbean Roadmap for Adolescent and Youth Health: Championing Our Wealth: Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Adolescents and Youth in the Caribbean.
Three days of discussion last November…
NO MORE CHILD MOTHERS IN THE CARIBBEAN
Bridgetown, 20 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - Becoming a mother is a beautiful and landmark event in the lives of many women - particularly when the pregnancy is planned or desired, and childbirth is safe. But pregnancy during adolescence can have far-reaching negative and irreversible consequences for both the…
The General Coordination of Documentation and Information of the Ministry of Health (CGDI/MoH) and the Brazil Office of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO Brazil) work together in a technical cooperation initiative in the context of the VI Additive Term of the 95 ° Technical Cooperation Term (TA6/TC95) in…
This week marks the inaugural celebration of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Week and a host of activities have been planned.
PAHO/WHO Family and Community Health Advisor, Dr. Darlene Omeir, explained the genesis of the calendar event.
“Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Week will be commemorated annually during the third week of October, with the…
Members of the country’s workforce were recently equipped with training to help protect them from COVID-19.
The training, which took place on the 6th, 8th, 9th, 12th and 14th of October, provided more than 100 persons with life saving techniques. Those trained were hotel managers and staff, customs and immigration staff, security personnel,…
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, October 16, 2020 - Through funding from the European Union, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in partnership with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), have secured down payments to purchase over 1M doses of the expected COVID-19 vaccine(s) for Caribbean Member States.
CARPHA Executive Director Dr Joy St…
Bridgetown, Barbados – 15 October 2020. The development and implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine is envisioned as a key intervention to significantly reduce the threat of the virus. To prepare countries for introduction of a vaccine, the PAHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries held a virtual meeting to discuss the…
Within the framework of the analysis of its 2020-2021 Work Plan (BWP 20-21) and even though in emergency teleworking during the global pandemic of COVID-19 since mid-March/20, BIREME/PAHO/WHO achieved important advances. Ten of the main results achieved in the first semester of 2020 are shared here, especially scientific information on SARS-CoV-2…
Paramaribo, Suriname, 13 October 2020 (PAHO/WHO)–The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Country Office in Suriname handed over 20 oxygen concentrators to the Ministry of Health to support the country in its response to COVID-19. The 20 oxygen concentrators will be distributed to health facilities to treat…