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October 19, 2020

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...]

Filed Under: Caribbean, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, Jamaica

August 19, 2020

PAHO Director Warns COVID-19 Threatens Plans to Control Infectious Diseases

[Reprinted: PAHO, 8-4-2020] Routine vaccination, care for diabetes, hypertension and HIV, and maternal health have all been impacted. Countries must adapt and ensure continuation of primary health services alongside pandemic response. Health services are being disrupted in countries of the Americas as health workers are redirected to care for COVID-19 patients, people hesitate to seek routine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: COVID-19, Diabetes in Caribbean, HIV/AIDS, Hypertension, PAHO/WHO, Pandemic, Telemedicine

June 19, 2020

A wake-up call: COVID-19 and its impact on children’s health and wellbeing

  [Reprinted: Lancet Global Health, 5-12-2020] As cases of COVID-19 surge worldwide and threaten to overwhelm life-saving health services, the survival of mothers and children is at great risk.  In The Lancet Global Health, Timothy Roberton and colleagues present startling new evidence on the potential rise in maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child health & well-being, Coronavirus, COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, UNICEF Tagged With: #childrenhealth&wellbeing, #UNICEF, COVID-19

March 3, 2020

St. Kitts & Nevis upholds healthcare is a basic human right for its citizens

PM Timothy Harris with Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla (centre) and CARICOM's Assistant Secretary-General (Directorate for Human and Social Development), Dr. Douglas Slater on the sidelines of the high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). In September 2019, the prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Timothy Harris, proclaimed at the 74th Session of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Caricom, HIV/AIDS, Quality healthcare, St. Kitts & Nevis, Universal Health Coverage

May 22, 2019

WHO Honors Jamaican Doctor for Public Health Leadership

Jamaican doctor and professor, Peter Figueroa, has been recognised at the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a health leader for his contribution to public health locally and internationally over the last four decades. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Caribbean Health, HIV/AIDS, Leadership, PAHO/WHO, Public Health

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