[Reprinted: The Lancet, 10-17-2020] What strategies should governments adopt to improve the health of their citizens? Amid the COVID-19 syndemic it would be easy to focus attention on global health security—at a minimum, strong public health and health-care systems. WHO has based its global health strategy on three pillars: universal health coverage, health emergencies, and better health and … [Read more...]
Caribbean Training and Education Centre for Health opens in Kingston
[Reprinted: Loop Caribbean News, 10-18-2020] The Caribbean Training and Education Centre for Health (C-TECH) has officially launched independent operations, in Kingston, expanding over 17 years of healthcare programming within Jamaica and the region. C-TECH holds strong expertise in implementing innovative HIV prevention, care and treatment programmes and has now broadened its scope to combat … [Read more...]
Coronavirus cases in the Caribbean to date: 219,966
[Reprinted: Loop Caribbean News, 10-15-2020] Confirmed Caribbean coronavirus cases as of October 15: Dominican Republic- 119,662 cases, 2186 deaths, 95,460 recovered Puerto Rico- 27,004 cases, 735 deaths French Guiana- 10,202 cases, 69 deaths, 9892 recovered Haiti- 8908 cases, 231 deaths, 7182 recovered Jamaica- 7989 cases, 151 deaths, 3431 recovered Guadeloupe- 6908 cases, 96 … [Read more...]
The necessity for intra-action reviews during the COVID-19 pandemic
[Reprinted: The Lancet Global Health, 10-8-2020] After the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, WHO proposed a blueprint list of priority diseases for research and development, based on their epidemic potential or the absence of countermeasures. Among this list is disease X, representing the emergence of a disease previously unknown to humans that could result in a serious global health … [Read more...]
St. Lucia’s PM Says Gov’t is Broke, Can’t Afford to Fund Stabilization Programme
[Reprinted: CNW, 10-12-2020] Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has told St. Lucians that it is “no secret” that the island has exhausted all of the efforts aimed at providing financial assistance to citizens in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and appealed to nationals to follow the various protocols and measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus that has so far infected 29 … [Read more...]
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