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A well-known African HIV/AIDS activist will be taking his message of hope to Jamaica, shortly. Winstone Zulu, originally from Zambia and now a Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, has been living with HIV for the past 19 years and says his message of hope is that if you have the disease, it does not have to mean...

Ground was broken on Wednesday (April 1) for the construction of a Type 1 Health Centre in the community of Jeffrey Town in St. Mary, which will provide primary health services for some 4,000 persons. The $11 million project is being financed by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sport and Education (CHASE) Fund, which will provide approximately $6 million of the...

Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and Environment, Dr. Sheila Campbell-Forrester, has reiterated Jamaica's call for an extension of the deadline for achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) beyond 2015. Dr. Campbell-Forrester said that the current global financial meltdown will negatively impact on the country's health spending and services, and its ability to meet the deadline for...

It is said that the first wealth is health, and with the Government's plan to have the country achieve developed country status by 2030, the Ministry of Health and Environment (MOHE) is moving to ensure that all Jamaicans are healthy by then. As part of this thrust, the ministry has already embarked on a transformation and restructuring programme to ensure...

A group of concerned citizens from the Dolphin Head community in Hanover have come together to form a committee, which will work to protect the unique flora and fauna of the Dolphin Head Forest Reserve in the parish. The 14-member Dolphin Head Local Forest Management Committee, which was launched yesterday (April 1) at the Riverside Seventh-day Adventist Church, will be...

Hundreds of residents in St. Thomas have benefited from the staging of health fairs under the Beyond the Horizon project, conducted by the United States Army in partnership with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and the Ministry of Health and Environment. The Yallahs High School hosted military and health personnel, who erected tents and provided medical care, free of cost,...

The Registrar General's Department (RGD), which celebrates 10 years as an Executive Agency, on Wednesday (April 1), has spawned a business opportunity for 200 persons who wish to participate in the valuable work it is doing, to provide vital documentation for Jamaicans here and abroad. This comes in the form of authorised vendors, or cyber vendexors

More individuals who are unable to access reproductive and sexual health commodities will soon be able to, with the signing of a partnership geared towards improving the supply and demand for items, such as male and female condoms, in the Caribbean. The letter of intent, involving the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the...

The Ministry of Health and Environment has embarked on a drive to enhance its services to the public by conducting a Needs-Based Human Resource in Health (HRH ) study. The four-year project is a joint initiative of the Ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO)/Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and is being conducted as a pilot in the South East...

The Government's abolition of user fees, nearly a year ago, has brought health care within the reach of over 50 per cent of the poorest quintile of Jamaicans who previously reported an illness, but could not afford to get treatment. This is gleaned from figures supplied by the 2007 edition of the 'Jamaica Survey of Living Conditions', published by the...

The Ministry of Health (MOH), in association with the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), will stage another in its series of Stakeholders Meetings on Thursday (March 26) at the Medallion Hall Hotel, in Kingston. The meeting forms part of the MOH/PAHO/WHO four-year Human Resource for Health (HRH) planning project, being piloted in Jamaica's South...

The Ministry of Health is developing a national strategic plan to stem the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Jamaica, portfolio Minister, Rudyard Spencer, has announced. Mr. Spencer noted that, while the incidence of TB in Jamaica is comparatively low, the Ministry will continue to work "persistently" to educate the public and enhance TB prevention and control. He said that the...