Kingston, Jamaica, 01 November 2024 (PAHO) - On Wednesday, October 31, the Jamaica Country Office had the pleasure of welcoming Mr. Errol Greene, the new Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW), for his first meeting with Country Representative Mr. Ian Stein. The meeting also marked Mr. Greene's initial engagement with…
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 23 October, 2024. (PAHO) - In 2023 the Director of PAHO, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr., reaffirmed and reintroduced the “Elimination Initiative” that was first launched mere months before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global emergency in 2020. This renewed focus on the initiative…
San Pedro Sula, Cortés, November 2024 (PAHO/WHO) – The Ministry of Health of Honduras, with technical support from the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), launched a mission of experts to enhance the organization of health services and the management of dengue cases. This mission, part of the "Dengue Response:…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA 29 OCTOBER 2024- The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Civil Defense Commission (CDC) and with support from the PAHO/WHO, successfully conducted the Mass Casualty Management (MCM) training program. The training program lasted 11 days.Forty-six participants from six essential emergency response agencies participated…
Washington DC, October 30, 2024 (PANAFTOSA/SPV-PAHO/WHO) - This week, PAHO/WHO brought together experts from the Commission for the Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Influenza in the Americas (CIPCIZA) at its headquarters to launch ad hoc intersectoral working groups on surveillance, risk assessment, and laboratory activities.Over the course of…
October 30 - Staff of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization’s (PAHO/WHO) Country Office for The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands joined scores of people during the Alzheimer's Memory Walk. Hosted by The Bahamas Alzheimer’s Association, the Memory Walk was a part of a series of activities geared towards bringing…
Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 2024, (PANAFTOSA/SPV-PAHO/WHO) - PAHO organized a field visit today to its Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health Center (PANAFTOSA) in Rio de Janeiro, with representatives from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United…
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA 28-OCTOBER 2024—The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with PAHO/WHO, assessed the HEARTS Initiative in Guyana. Dr Anselm Hennis, Director of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health, PAHO/WHO and additional expert, visited Guyana from 21 to 25 October 2024.The team lead a mission that, together with MoH, is currently…
GEORGETOWN, 24 OCTOBER 2024- The Ministry of Health, with the support of PAHO/WHO and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), conducted a workshop on Integrated Health Service Delivery Networks. The event gathered forty-eight senior-level participants, including the Director General, Chief Medical Officer, Permanent Secretary, eight Directors,…