COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)

By Simon Nicholas Williams// The Conversation.com World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management. This may not change too much practically. COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries […]

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.

Photo Editorial credit: Whitney Welshimer BY Ruby Mendenhall and Loren Henderson Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high […]

Vacancy: Leadership to unite the global south

Vacancy: Leadership to unite the global south

Credit: sirronaldsanders.com I was astonished recently to be told by one of the representatives of the Caribbean on the Board of the World Bank (WB) that Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts-Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago, should not expect any change in the bank’s policy not to make concessional loans to them because, […]

#VWA2023: Haiti launches catch-up campaign in ”Les Cayes” to improve vaccination coverage

#VWA2023: Haiti launches catch-up campaign in ”Les Cayes” to improve vaccination coverage

Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) was launched this year by Haiti’s Ministry of Health and Population (MSPP) with support from PAHO, in the city of Les Cayes, marking the beginning of a catch-up vaccination campaign in the South Department. This initiative aims to improve immunization coverage in the country, with a particular focus on […]

PAHO and AIDS Healthcare Foundation to collaborate on elimination of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

PAHO and AIDS Healthcare Foundation to collaborate on elimination of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

By PAHO Washington, DC, May 2, 2023 (PAHO)- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) have agreed to work together to contribute to efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), viral hepatitis, mpox and other sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean. The framework agreement was […]

Saint Lucia in midst of development of a hydromet portal

Saint Lucia in midst of development of a hydromet portal

By: Caribbean Business Report 21st century technology will soon improve the work of TheSaint Lucia Met Service and the Water Resource Management Agency (WRMA). The development of a Hydromet Portal is an initiative of the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project (DVRP). The online platform allows users to collect, archive, visualize and share hydrometeorological data. This data […]

Park Hyatt St. Kitts celebrates tourism and the arts

Park Hyatt St. Kitts celebrates tourism and the arts

Park Hyatt St. Kitts Christophe Harbour, a luxury oceanfront resort in St. Kitts and Nevis, embraces the importance of supporting local art and fostering tourism linkages with the creative arts community in the twin island nation. General Manager Richard Elliott says he is proud to share the resort’s commitment to incorporating the local culture and […]

UWI Researchers cop US $300,000 to study nature-based coastal solutions

UWI Researchers cop US $300,000 to study nature-based coastal solutions

By: Caribbean Business Report Researchers at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) are pleased to have secured US $300,000 to conduct much needed research into designing sustainable, nature-based coastal solutions. The grant by Future Earth will fund research in Trinidad  and Tobago, USA, Barbados and Jamaica aimed at generating a more universal approach […]

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