The Government will be spending $1 billion on the National HIV/AIDS Response in Jamaica Project over the 2022/2023 fiscal year. Objectives of the programme are geared at reducing AIDS-related morbidity with effective biomedical and supporting interventions, and reducing new HIV infections among key populations through behavioural and structural interventions. Details of the project are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of...

Disbursements have been made to 80 per cent of St. Elizabeth families who were selected to benefit from the first payment of cash grants provided by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Parish Manager for the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Michelle Senior, made the disclosure while addressing the monthly meeting of the St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation on...

Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr. Marcia Graham, says that the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge in the number of active cases in the parish. Dr. Graham, who was speaking at the monthly meeting of the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation in Savanna-la- Mar recently, highlighted that as at February 10, the parish had 147 active...

Adults must ensure that children are protected from contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19), by adhering to the containment and preventative protocols. Making the call, Medical Officer of Health for St. Catherine, Dr. Francia Prosper Chen, noted that during the month of January, an alarming number of children were admitted to the Spanish Town Hospital, suffering from the virus. She told the...

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ) is placing emphasis on obesity as a major risk factor for heart disease throughout Heart Month – February 2022. The month is being observed under the theme ‘The weigh to a healthy heart’. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, on February 11, Director at the Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ), Dr....

Nine of 12 healthcare facilities that were upgraded under the Strengthening Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean or ‘Smart’ Project have been officially handed over to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. The handover took place during a recent ceremony at the newly upgraded St. Ann’s Bay Health Centre in St. Ann. The retrofitted facilities, which were completed last year,...

The outpatient clinics at the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester which were moved to the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Church hall will be relocated to the hospital. The clinics will be relocated during this week, February 14 to 17 and operations will begin on the hospital compound on Monday, February 21, 2022. The clinics were moved in September 2021 to create...