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...
Meet Dr. Farley R. Cleghorn - MD, MPH
Dr Farley Cleghorn says: The only way to end the pandemic and to return to some semblance of normalcy is...
Video Series on HIV Self-testing
PART 1 – “It’s time for a policy on HIV self-testing” As we continue to navigate COVID-19, it is important to...
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...
Your Health - Our Passion - Quality Matters
In these challenging times, CMLF is seizing the opportunity to remind our valued partners and stakeholders of how important it...
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...
A call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV self-testing
PRESS RELEASE As COVID-19 reduces access to HIV testing services, AIDS response partners call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV...
COVID causes reduction in HIV/AIDS testing
A 69 per cent reduction in facility and community-based HIV testing services due to COVID-19 is putting people with undiagnosed...
HIV/Syphilis Rapid Testing Portal
As we celebrate World AIDS Day in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, CMLF launches its new website and...
Celebrating World AIDS Day
To celebrate World AIDS day 2020, CMLF has put together the following:...
WHO pre-qualifies COVID 19 Ag Tests
List of EUL products eligible for procurement: Instruction for Use (IFUs) Source: WHO...
Free fatty acid binding pocket in the locked structure of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Abstract COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), represents a global crisis. Key to SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic development is unraveling...
WHO Guidance on Use of Rapid Antigen Tests for SARS-CoV-2
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, laboratories have been using nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs), such as real time...
CMLF’s critical role in the Region’s COVID-19 response
Contributor: Valerie Wilson, Director, Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the world; laboratories are not immune to...