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PAHO, local groups to offer 35,000 free covid tests

After weeks of Carnival parties and two days of playing mas in large crowds without wearing masks or following any covid19 protocols, the number of covid19 cases in TT is expected to rise. To ensure the public knows their covid19 status and so can take proper precautions, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Catholic

CMLF and partners co-ordinate free COVID-19 testing post Carnival

Members of the Catholic Community joined efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 by making rapid COVID-19 antigen testing FREE & available to the public on Ash Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Port of Spain. The initiative was sponsored by CCSJ Trinidad and Tobago, PAHO Caribbean, Medical Research Foundation, Caribbean Med Labs

U.S. investigating first cases of “concerning” new drug-resistant gonorrhea strain

Health authorities in Massachusetts announced Thursday they have identified two cases of a new strain of gonorrhea that appears to have developed resistance to a broad swath of antibiotic treatments. Both patients got better after getting injections of ceftriaxone, the main drug currently recommended to treat cases of the sexually transmitted infection. But state health

Why maggots are a medical marvel

What do Genghis Khan, the American Civil War and the UK’s health service have in common? The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, maggots. Dr Erica McAlister, an entomologist and Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum in the UK, explores how having maggots munching away at the decaying flesh of a wound might not be as terrible as

Parliament passes law to regulate medical labs

Parliament has passed a law regulating the operations of medical laboratories in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, giving current laboratories nine months in which to obtain a licence or cease operation. In piloting the Medical Laboratories Bill, which was passed with bipartisan support, Minister of Health Jimmy Prince spoke of the role that medical laboratories

Monkeypox Virus Infection Resulting from an Occupational Needlestick — Florida, 2022

In August 2022, the Florida Department of Health notified CDC of a nurse who acquired monkeypox through an occupational exposure while providing care to a patient with monkeypox. To date, occupationally acquired Monkeypox virus (MPXV) infections in health care personnel (HCP) have been rarely reported during the 2022 multinational outbreak (1,2). This report describes the

The WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency

The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. “I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Issuing a Public Health Emergency of International Concern enhances coordination and sharing of resources and information among nations. The declaration

REOI – Development of OECS Multi-Sectoral Multi-Hazard Emergency Preparedness, Mitigation, Response and Recovery Measures

NAME OF PROJECT – OECS REGIONAL HEALTH PROJECT GRANT NO.: D513 ASSIGNMENT TITLE: DEVELOPMENT OF OECS MULTI-SECTORAL MULTIHAZARD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, MITIGATION, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY MEASURES INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT Reference No. LC-OECS COMMISSION-287117-CS-INDV The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the OECS Regional Health Project (ORHP),