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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the establishment of the UN Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) to finance critical unfunded priorities in the response to the

Infant mortality rate has reached an all-time low in the last four months, says Public Health Minister Dr. George Norton. The Minister revealed that while the figures have been

Ebola and Chikungunya may no longer be immediate threats to Jamaica for now, but that has not stopped the new administration from ensuring the country is ready if

Jamaica’s Ministry of Health says the country has adequate medical supplies to treat Zika virus infections and officials are going all out to control the population of the

The first ever Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) undertaken in the English-speaking Caribbean region has been completed at leading tertiary care hospital, Health City Cayman Islands. The complex

The ministry of health in Grenada has denied reports that three babies had died as a result of gastroenteritis at the General Hospital last weekend. In a press statement

For the first time since the US normalized relations with Cuba, a delegation of pediatricians co-led by Dr Stephen Berman of Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) and the

The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet next Monday to determine whether the Zika virus outbreak that has touched 23 countries, including some in the Caribbean, constitutes a

Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced that government has reached an agreement with the Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) to clear its debt to the institution. Governments has amassed EC$250