On May 5, 2021, Canada became the first country in the world to approve COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children aged 12–15 years; later the same month, the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency also gave the green light to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents. Children younger than 12 years are the next population who need a safe and efficient … [Read more...]
Eastern Caribbean Free of Congenital STDs
Since 2010, PAHO/WHO has collaborated with the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to implement a regional initiative for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and congenital syphilis. In 2013, 2324 children were born with HIV in LAC which is a decrease of 45% than in 2010. In Cuba, less than 2% of children whose mothers have HIV are born with the virus, the … [Read more...]
New Children’s Hospital for Western Jamaica
The governments of Jamaica and China yesterday signed an agreement for the construction of a new US$ 36M Children's Hospital in Montego Bay, St James. The facility will be the second children's hospital to be built in the island with the first being the Bustamante Children's Hospital in Kingston built in 1963, and will be the first new hospital constructed in the island since the May Pen Hospital … [Read more...]