News from the Caribbean:
Study finds Caribbean-American women at higher risk for elevated mercury levels
February 18, 2012
NEW YORK, USA -- A new study published by researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center's School of Public Health assessed mercury levels in pregnant women and examined dietary and environmental sources of exposure to mercury.
Belize joins the Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative
February 10, 2012
SAN PEDRO, Belize -- On Thursday, Belize joined the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) -- a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor, benefiting more than 30,000 young women and children.
Childhood obesity an emerging problem in Montserrat
February 4, 2012
BRADES, Montserrat (GIU) -- Childhood obesity and overweight is an emerging problem in Montserrat says the Ministry of Health and a screening programme has begun to decrease the disease burden among youth.
Tackling the scourge of leptospirosis in Barbados
January 25, 2012
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- With a total of three deaths and 44 cases of leptospirosis recorded in 2011, the Ministry of Health in Barbados is urging residents to protect themselves against the disease.
New book released on traditional medicine and women healers in Trinidad
January 21, 2012
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Anthropologist Dr Kumar Mahabir will be launching his new book, Traditional Medicine and Women Healers in Trinidad, on Saturday evening at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
UN urges investing in water and sanitation services to combat cholera in Haiti
January 12, 2012
UNITED NATIONS -- Dramatic improvements in water and sanitation services are needed to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, health experts who took part in a United Nations-organized briefing to outline concrete steps to...
Barbados research company announces new cancer drug
January 6, 2012
WORTHING, Barbados -- Goff Hill Ltd, a pharmaceutical research development company in Barbados, has announced a new cancer drug that it claims causes cancer tumour cells to completely disintegrate with one five-day treatment.
Motrin recalled from Caribbean retailers
December 26, 2011
NEW YORK, USA -- Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson has issued another recall of Motrin, this time from retailers, including those in Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Belize, St Lucia and Jamaica, bringing the number of recalls for this drug alone to six in the past two years.
India to fund construction of specialty hospital in Guyana
December 23, 2011
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr Roger Luncheon said on Wednesday that the EXIM Bank of India has approved and made available the funding at concessionary terms for the construction of...
Leptospirosis a growing concern in Barbados
December 22, 2011
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- Leptospirosis is of great concern to the Ministry of Health in Barbados. According to Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Joy St John, at a recent press briefing, there is more than one strain of leptospirosis.
CARICOM cholera-response project underway in Haiti
December 16, 2011
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is executing a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and to sensitize residents of a Cite Soleil community in Haiti in the practice of safe personal and community hygiene.
NCDS fight must be more data driven, says PAHO Caribbean coordinator
December 14, 2011
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Dr Ernest Pate, PAHO Caribbean programme coordinator has asserted that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must be more data driven in the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases.
CARICOM second annual meeting on NCDs set for Trinidad and Tobago
December 10, 2011
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) / IADB regional surveillance project will hold its...
Health fair headlines CARICOM-Cuba Day in St Kitts
December 7, 2011
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) -- The highlight of this year’s commemoration of CARICOM-Cuba Day in St Kitts on Thursday is a health clinic that will take place in Independence Square from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
PANCAP poised to achieve UNAIDS' three zeros
December 3, 2011
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) is well poised to undertake UNAIDS’ challenge of “Getting to Zero: Zero Discrimination, Zero New Infections and Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
New HIV/AIDS infections decline in St Kitts-Nevis
December 3, 2011
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis (NIA) -- As Nevis joined the rest of the world in the observance of World AIDS Day on December 01, 2011 under the theme “Getting to Zero”, a top health official on the island announced that that there was a decline in the number...
Cuban vaccine against lung cancer to be tested in Britain
November 29, 2011
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- Erik Dâ’Hondt, scientific director of the Malaysian pharmaceutical group Bioven, said that “in a matter of days” a group of British patients will receive the Cimavax-EGF lung cancer vaccine, created by scientists at Havana’s...
PANCAP urged to become a leader in human rights
November 19, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- Member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been called upon to revamp the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) by establishing the partnership as the Caribbean’s leader in promoting...
Caribbean HIV conference attracts more than 2,000 participants from across the region
November 19, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- The 2011 Caribbean HIV Conference: Strengthening Evidence To Achieve Sustainable Action was due to commence on Friday evening with more than 2,000 individuals from across the region in attendance.
Exposure to violence leads to stress-related illness in youth, says CARICOM official
November 17, 2011
BASSETERRE, St Kitts -- Dr Heather Johnson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat deputy programme manager, youth development, says young people who are constantly exposed to violence invariably develop complex psychosomatic...
PANCAP to hold key governance meetings
November 14, 2011
GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will hold three meetings related to its governance and operations on 17 to 18 November 2011, in The Bahamas. The seventeenth meeting of the executive board...
New health and sanitation projects to benefit 80,000 families in Haiti
November 12, 2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- An ambitious health and sanitation program valued at $700,000, which will benefit 80,000 families in Haiti's southwestern Grand'Anse region, has been made possible by an innovative inter-municipal cooperation agreement.
Ride the Bus HIV/AIDS campaign drives forward in St Kitts
November 11, 2011
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (SKNIS) -- Bus passengers around St Kitts have been able to discuss the latest HIV/AIDS information as they journey to their various destinations, starting Tuesday. This is the result of an innovative activity being carried out...
Barbados leads the way in fertility healthcare for US patients
November 11, 2011
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Barbados Fertility Centre (BFC) will be featured in the Vanguard documentary 'Under the knife abroad', which airs on Monday 14 November 9:00pm PST/8:00pm CT on Current TV.
New York Times highlights Cuba's role in fight against cholera in Haiti
November 10, 2011
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- The New York Times published an article on Tuesday in which it described as vital the presence of a Cuban medical brigade in Haiti, a country that has suffered the negative effects of cholera and a devastating earthquake in 2010.
Dengue fever should be of concern to all, says scientist
November 10, 2011
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis (NIA) -- Facilitator of a three-day workshop on integrated vector management, Dr Samuel Rawlins PhD, told public health workers in St Kitts and Nevis that dengue fever was cause for concern to everyone in the Federation.
Experts outline initiatives for future dengue vaccine and control of dengue fever
November 9, 2011
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Dengue v2V, a group of international experts in dengue, public health and vaccinology, held a meeting in Puerto Rico on 5–6 November 2011 to continue to outline steps for the introduction of a dengue vaccine once licensed.
Dengue fever outbreaks may be more severe in future, says Bahamas study
November 2, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- A proper research facility is needed to assist in the fight against dengue fever, which is becoming more prevalent in The Bahamas, according to a recent study, ‘Dengue Fever: An Emerging Infectious Disease in The Bahamas’.
Belize health specialists receive training in Mexico
November 1, 2011
BELMOPAN, Belize -- Belizean specialists in perinatal health traveled to Mexico in order to participate in the "Third Refresher Course in Neonatology", from 24 to 28 October at the Hospital for Women in Mexico City. This course is part of the project...
Caribbean HIV conference designed to explore cross-cutting issues
October 28, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- The 2011 Caribbean HIV Conference: Strengthening Evidence to Achieve Sustainable Action, November 18–21, will bring together approximately 2,000 individuals from across the Caribbean to review research findings...
Bahamas moves to prevent cholera spread
October 24, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- Authorities in The Bahamas moved speedily to ensure there is no spread of cholera, after confirming that one illegal immigrant had the potentially deadly infection, Minister of Health Dr Hubert Minnis said on Friday.
Nearly 470,000 cholera cases reported in Haiti over the past year
October 22, 2011
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported.
Preventive healthcare still the focus in Nevis
October 22, 2011
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis (NIA) -- Committed to the ministries of health and gender affairs, deputy premier of Nevis, Hensley Daniel, said his government “is taking the need to develop preventive healthcare.”
Grenada's maternal mortality ratio highlighted at Commonwealth seminar
October 21, 2011
LONDON, England -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that Grenada is among the three countries with the lowest maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the world, followed by Japan and Mauritius. There are 0 deaths to every 100,000 live births.
Reported cases of dengue fever in Bahamas at standstill
October 20, 2011
NASSAU, Bahamas -- While reported cases of dengue fever have come to a standstill, approximately 7,000 cases of the vector-borne disease have been confirmed in The Bahamas over the past several months, according to deputy chief medical officer...
Commentary: Montserrat's mammogram programme on stream
October 8, 2011
Breast cancer is a common cause of death worldwide, including the Caribbean, and this has caused grief to many families. However, experts say, this does not have to be so. Techniques like breast self examination, clinical breast exam...
Cayman Islands reports first dengue fever case for the year
October 5, 2011
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (GIS) -- As a regional outbreak persists, public health officials in the Cayman Islands have confirmed a local case of dengue fever, most probably imported from The Bahamas by a returning resident.
Hemispheric health officials eye measures to curb harmful use of alcohol
October 1, 2011
WASHINGTON, USA (PAHO/WHO) -- Top health officials from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean have endorsed a series of actions that the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) says...
Ministers of health meet to set health priorities for the Americas
September 27, 2011
WASHINGTON, USA (PAHO/WHO) -- Ministers of Health of all the countries of the Americas gathered at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Washington, DC, on Monday.
OAS calls for further co-operation during PAHO meeting
September 27, 2011
WASHINGTON, USA -- The assistant secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, joined health ministers, government officials and country representatives from around the world for the inauguration of the...
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