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The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is being lauded by Guyana health officials as being critical to Caribbean regionalism as far as public health is concerned. This sentiment

Fifteen countries have confirmed the presence of chikungunya disease and these include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Martinique, St

Guyana has sent almost 1000 samples to be tested by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for chikungunya and so far 15 cases of the mosquito-borne disease have

A new two-year mental health programme funded by British philanthropist John Moore will commence soon according to the head of the Foundation, former PNC/Reform Executive Member Supriya Singh.

The Cancer Institute of Guyana through funding from the Caribbean Civil Society Cervical Cancer Prevention Fund and the Australian Direct AID Fund, managed by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition

The recently launched Emergency Medical Services (EMS) programme by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been described as a blessing by Wendy Gill, a woman who delivered

Dr. William Adu-Krow, a Ghanaian national is now the new PAHO/WHO Representative for the Guyana Country Office.  His impressive academic career started in 1975, where he acquired a

Guyana has recorded a significant decrease in the number of malaria cases in 2013, while health authorities continue to urge early diagnosis of the vector-borne disease in a

According to a release from the CARICOM Secretariat, Dereck Anthony Springer has been appointed Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP). Springer, a public health