SCARBOROUGH, Tobago – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has launched the first CARICOM-approved health, safety, and environmental sanitation (HSE) hospitality standards to improve health, safety, and environmental quality in the regional hospitality sector, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

LIMA, Peru – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says health experts and partners from the Americas, including the Caribbean, involved in meningitis prevention, control and treatment have gathered here to develop a roadmap to defeat meningitis in the region by 2030.

WASHINGTON, DC – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Carissa Etienne, Wednesday called on countries to implement the tools proven to keep communities safe, including vaccines, surveillance, mask wearing and social distancing, particularly in the run-up to the festive period amid concerns that the region is experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Prime Minister Mia Mottley is anticipating that the establishment of a pharmaceutical industry here could provide as many as many as 5,000 jobs for Barbadians.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The St. Lucia government says it will undertake a fact-finding nationwide survey that will serve as a digital data collection tool imperative ahead of the imminent launch of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) project.

UNITED NATIONS – The Haitian government has joined the United Nations and other humanitarian partners in launching a US$145.6 million appeal to support its country’s emergency cholera response.

WASHINGTON, DC – A new report by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says the number of people with diabetes in the Americas, including the Caribbean, has more than tripled in three decades. 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A four-day mental health and well-being conference will bring leading mental health experts to Guyana, to tackle mental health challenges here.

“The prevalence of dementia in persons [in Jamaica] who are 60 and older is somewhere around 9%, and that is likely an underestimate. What that works out to be is that approximately 45,000 persons 60 and older are probably living with some type of dementia, but these figures are from 2018, and that's before COVID”, explained Dr. Ishtar Govia, research and Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at the Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), UWI Mona in Jamaica.

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley Tuesday announced a new initiative involving the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa to develop and manufacture pharmaceuticals for global public health.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Ministry of Health is seeking to reduce the mortality rate and the number of cases of malaria in Guyana by 2025, in keeping with the 2030 target of the World Health Organization (WHO).

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Government is moving ahead with the construction of seven new hospitals to deliver quality health service to Guyanese in all regions, Minister of Health Dr. Frank Anthony has disclosed.