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Three days before Christmas, the Glebe Polyclinic in St. George, Barbados, received a donation from PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC). Bridgetown, Barbados, December 22, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - In their continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic, PAHO presented the polyclinic with a state of the art standing non-…
Bridgetown, Barbados, 21 December 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - On 14 December 2020, authorities of the United Kingdom (UK) reported that a SARS-CoV-2 variant has been identified through viral genomic sequencing in 1,108 individuals as of 13 December 2020. Given the identified variant strain can be dated back to September 2020 in UK, it is likely this…
Belize City, Belize, December 21, 2020 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), supported by the Government of Canada donated 119,360 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to The Kolbe Foundation and Belize Central Prison in the Ministry of Home Affairs & New Growth Ministry, the Children’s Homes and…
Belize City, Belize, December 21, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), as part of the continuous support in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic donated 139,380 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to The Belize Defense Force (BDF) and the Belize National Coast Guard of the Ministry of…
Belize City, Belize, December 21, 2020 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), as part of the continuous support in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic donated 30,280 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to the Belize Red Cross.  The Red Cross continues to be at the forefront of the battle to…
Montevideo, 19/12/2020 (CLAP/PAHO/WHO)- On 18th December, the Latin American Centre for Perinatology, Women and Reproductive Health (CLAP) of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) held the webinar "Recommendations for establishing a national surveillance system for maternal near miss in Latin America and the…
Bridgetown, Barbados, December 18, 2020 (PAHO/WHO) - The PAHO/WHO Office for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Countries (ECC) said thank you to media this week, for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. During a cocktail reception hosted for media houses, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kenneth George, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health…
In the World Health Organization (WHO) Region of the Americas, national programs are increasingly integrating trachoma interventions into broader health care packages, to improve the health of some of the region’s most remote and hard to reach communities, including indigenous populations living in the Amazonian Basin.   In Colombia,…
São Paulo, 15 December 2020 (PAHO/WHO)—The series of six webinars “Strengthening health information networks” that had as target audience the networks of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and Libraries of the Unified Health System (BiblioSUS) started in June this year. The first three webinars focused on bibliographic control and the role of the…