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COVID-19CARPHA Partners with, PAHO to Ensure Caribbean States’ Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccine
The Caribbean Public health Agency (CARPHA), with funding from the European Union (EU), has entered into an agreement with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) to support Member States’ participation in the COVAX Facility. This will be done through assistance with the required down payment to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which is the administrator of the COVAX Facility. The Facility…
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COVID-19WHO launches global initiative to create equitable access to COVID-19 drugs and vaccines
( DPI, Guyana, ) The World Health Organisation (WHO) today, launched a global collaboration to accelerate the development, production and equitable access to new COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. A group of healthcare actors, private sector partners and other stakeholders have joined forces to launch the ‘Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator’. During his media briefing today, WHO Director-General Dr.…
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Caribbean to benefit from new WHO programme
GENEVA Switzerland (CMC) – Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are to benefit from a new plan approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for new health emergency programmes, globally. Caribbean health ministers were among delegates at the WHO meeting here and according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the programme adds operational capabilities for outbreaks and humanitarian emergencies that are…
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Possible human trials of Zika vaccine by September
TEXAS, United States, Thursday May 19, 2016 – Scientists have for the first time cloned the Zika virus, an important development towards fast-tracking a vaccine against the disease. The genetically engineered copy is a replica of the strain that is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean, bringing an increase in microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with…
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Jamaica lab approved as WHO Zika testing facility
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday April 4, 2016 – Jamaica is equipped to conduct Zika virus testing on behalf of other countries, if so assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO). Acting Director of the National Virology Reference Laboratory at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Professor Monica Smikle, has disclosed that the facility is a valid WHO testing agency.…
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WHO declares Zika an International Public Health Emergency
The World Health Organization declared the spread of Zika and an associated birth defect an international public health emergency Monday, freeing funds to combat the disease. “This is an extraordinary event,” said WHO Director General Margaret Chan at a press conference Monday. “It poses a public health threat to other parts of the world and a coordinated international response is…
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PAHO/WHO rep makes case for regional specialized health facilities
A representative of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) said there is no need for the country and other small island nations to consider having their own specialists to handle medical cases. Dr Godfrey Xuereb The Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean representative for PAHO/WHO, Dr Godfrey Xuereb said although Antigua & Barbuda could not handle…
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Adolescent Pregnancy is not just a Health issue – UNFPA
UNFPA Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean has embarked on a sexual and reproductive health information programme, to increase awareness about the health and development challenges posed by adolescent pregnancy, and provoke action to address the problem in the region. Through the public education programme, UNFPA has sought to highlight elements of the Integrated Strategic Framework for the Reduction of…
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Caribbean countries report end to mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis
– 17 countries in Americas may have eliminated mother-to-child HIV transmission – U.N. BOGOTA, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Data from 17 countries and territories across the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Chile, show they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the U.N. World Health Organization said on Monday. The countries were able to…
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