The health ministers of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) met in October in Grenada and advanced new health initiatives including strengthening their cooperation with their neighboring French territories to ensure that no citizen of OECS member states ‘are left behind' when it comes to accessing health services. … [Read more...]
PAHO: Caribbean to do more in fight against HIV
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...]
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...]
Forecasting Life Expectancy: 2016-2040
How healthy will the world be in 2040? If things continue as they are now, the answer is better off than we are today: Life expectancy will be, on average, 4.4 years higher for both women and men around the globe by 2040. That's according to a new report, published in the journal The Lancet. But public health choices and policy decisions that we make — or fail to make — now could set us down … [Read more...]
FOR SALE
Private hospital located in the English-speaking Caribbean. Ideal for medical tourism or off-shore medical school. Owners are retiring and want to recoup their investment. Price: US$30 M (negotiable) Includes: 4 acres land & all buildings Dedicated multi-specialty physician group (family practice, pediatrics, general surgery, radiology, internal med, cardiology, ortho, neuro, etc.) 30 … [Read more...]