According to Wikipedia, the 'Caribbean is the second-most affected region in the world in terms of HIV prevalence rates' after sub-Saharan Africa. Several factors affects this epidemic, including poverty, gender, sex tourism, and stigma. Additionally, other key important issues for the region include: The percentage of people in the Caribbean with suppressed viral loads is well below the global … [Read more...]
Caribbean Leaders to Address Obesity
In a recent report, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that “obesity and overweight are on the rise throughout the Caribbean and Latin America and are particularly prevalent among women and children.” In an effort to address this rising public health epidemic, leaders from four Caribbean countries met for a high-level meeting in New … [Read more...]
Barbados Plugging the Nursing Brain Drain
Touched By An Angel Nursing Services - Barbados Barbados is suffering from the common dilemma throughout the region of nurses leaving the public health system for a variety of reasons, retirement, illness, frustration, career changes, and frequently for greener pastures and a host of other reasons. Unfortunately, those who are left behind are overworked due to manpower shortages resulting in “burn … [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...]
Just societies, health equity, and dignified lives: the PAHO Equity Commission
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-673 6(18)32349-3/fulltext?code=lancet-site … [Read more...]