Guyana will make HIV-related discrimination illegal
In a landmark speech to a United Nations High-Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS on Tuesday, President Irfaan Ali declared...
PANCAP Meeting opens with Call to sustain HIV Response as Public Health Systems are challenged with COVID-19
Thursday, 3 June 2021 (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a...
Laboratory Mentor
The Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) entered into a loan agreement...
Professor Clive Landis to serve as next principal at UWI Cave Hill Campus
The University of the West Indies (The UWI) on Thursday announced that Professor Clive Landis will serve as the next...
Vaccine Myth Busters: Dr Ramon Arscott M.D., Ph.D.
Vaccine Myth Busters Dr Ramon Arscott M.D., Ph.D. provides a detailed presentation addressing various fears and concerns regarding the Covid-19...
How effective is your mask?
What can you do to make your mask as effective as possible? As COVID-19 infections continue to rise in our...
Airborne Coronavirus Is a Threat, the C.D.C. Acknowledges
Federal health officials on Friday updated public guidance about how the coronavirus spreads, emphasizing that transmission occurs by inhaling very...
Assessment, Development and Implementation of Laboratory Specimen Transportation Agreements, Policies and Legislation in the OECS
ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NAME OF PROJECT – OECS REGIONAL HEALTH PROJECT GRANT NO.:...
Single dose of Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZenca vaccine reduces infection rate by 65%, study finds
LONDON — A single dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine drastically reduces the risk of infection in adults of...
PAHO warns against getting COVID-19 vaccines outside of official channels
Vaccines not procured through government purchases from certified providers and offered by authorized national immunization circuits are presumed to be...
On World Health Day, PAHO Director calls for equitable pandemic recovery in the Americas
The pandemic has driven between 119 and 124 million more people globally into extreme poverty last year. Fourteen years of...
Why you can't compare Covid-19 vaccines
What a vaccine’s “efficacy rate” actually means. In the US, the first two available Covid-19 vaccines were the ones from...
Jamaica becomes first country in the Caribbean to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
Fifteen Caribbean countries will receive just over 2.1 million doses of COVAX vaccines by May, according to allocation figures provided...
COVID-19 vaccine rollout expanded in the Americas, PAHO Director reports
“Nearly 2.3 million COVAX doses will arrive in at least seven countries in our region in the next days and...
CARPHA head praises Caricom leaders in covid19 fight
CARIBBEAN Public Health Agency (CARPHA) executive director Dr Joy St John on Monday praised Caricom heads of government for leading...
Countries in the Americas notified of first COVID-19 vaccine allocations through COVAX
Washington, D.C., Jan. 31, 2021 (PAHO) — COVAX, a coalition led by WHO and Gavi to ensure equitable access to...
WHO Guidance for SARS-Co-V 2 RT-PCR testing
Nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies that use real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for detection of SARS-CoV-2 Product type: Nucleic acid testing...
World AIDS Day 2020 Global solidarity, resilient services
The world has made significant progress since the late 1990s, but HIV remains a major global public health issue. And...
‘Nobody Sees Us’: Testing-Lab Workers Strain Under Demand
Laboratory technologists have been working nonstop to help the nation diagnose an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases.. In March, April...
WHO pre-qualifies COVID 19 Ag Tests
List of EUL products eligible for procurement: Instruction for Use (IFUs) Source: WHO...