Tag: World Health Organisation
Jamaica has recorded its first confirmed case of Monkeypox, the Ministry of Health and Wellness advised. The patient is a male who recently traveled from the United Kingdom and stayed in Clarendon. He presented to ...
The top envoy of one of the world’s smallest countries lashed out at its most powerful—barely a month before a long-awaited summit in Los Angeles is supposed to unite all nations of the Western Hemisphere. ...
Since January 30, 2020, when the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a Public Health Emergency, the socio-economic welfare of Caribbean people has been impacted by multiple lockdowns, changes in travel protocols and drastic ...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The world should be able to rein in the novel coronavirus pandemic in less than two years, the World Health Organization said yesterday, as European nations battled rising numbers of new ...
(CMC) – At least two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have responded to a warning by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) that regional countries should seek to enhance disease surveillance at ports of entry and ...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is urging regional countries to enhance disease surveillance at ports of entry and at health facilities following the categorisation of the current ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica was elected in May to the United Nations (UN) Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), to serve for a four-year term until 2023. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Kamina ...
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) — Jamaican doctor and professor, Peter Figueroa, has been recognised at the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a health leader for his substantial contribution to public health in Jamaica, the Caribbean, the ...
The Caribbean has moved from having the second highest rate of HIV transmission from mother to child to being certified transmission-free. Pan-American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation representative to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Dr Godrey ...