Children's health Archives - ECS International https://ecsii.com/category/childrens-health/ ECS International, ECSII, Healthcare Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:38:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ecsii.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-1-e14442028662682-32x32.png Children's health Archives - ECS International https://ecsii.com/category/childrens-health/ 32 32 COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than 12 years: are we ready? https://ecsii.com/covid-19-vaccines-for-children-younger-than-12-years-are-we-ready/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:38:11 +0000 https://ecsii.com/?p=4052 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 Read More

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]]> Eastern Caribbean Free of Congenital STDs https://ecsii.com/eastern-caribbean-free-of-congenital-stds/ https://ecsii.com/eastern-caribbean-free-of-congenital-stds/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:44:40 +0000 https://ecsii.com/?p=1974 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% Read More

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]]> https://ecsii.com/eastern-caribbean-free-of-congenital-stds/feed/ 0 New Children’s Hospital for Western Jamaica https://ecsii.com/new-childrens-hospital-for-western-jamaica/ https://ecsii.com/new-childrens-hospital-for-western-jamaica/#respond Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:19:29 +0000 https://ecsii.com/?p=1726 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 Read More

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