Elaine Ruth Fletcher

“At the time, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados was the head of the CARICOM. She reached out to African Union president Uhuru Kenyatta (president of Kenya until 2022).

The outbreak of a new and dangerous strain of mpox in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has now spread to Goma, eastern DRC’s largest city with 25

Variant type 2 poliovirus (VDPV) has been isolated from six environmental (sewage) samples in the Gaza Strip - collected from two different collection sites

While WHO has so far assured that the risks to humans of avian flu remain low, as long as human-to-human transmission is not occurring, the ever-widening transmission of the deadly virus amongst different animal species increases the risks that the virus might one day soon mutate in a way that it can infect, and be transmitted amongst, humans more efficiently.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly delayed a WHO-mediated plan to evacuate some 200 seriously ill and wounded Gazan children to the

The recent CARICOM summit of Caribbean leaders has endorsed a new Afro-Caribbean Health and Development (HeDPAC) initiative aimed at stimulating

But he dismissed a query as to whether the pharma firm could consider selling vaccines directly to the African nations at concessionary prices:

The World Health Organization and UNICEF have appealed for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in the grinding Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in August and September to

With the number of new mpox cases continuing to rise, and many more potentially undetected, African countries affected by the latest outbreak are racing to

Vaccine Supply and Distribution EffortsThe DRC has received about 265,000 doses of the mpox vaccine, primarily from the European Union through a partnership