Senior Medical Officer (SMO) at the St. Ann’s Bay Hospital, Nicole Dawkins, is commending the Ministry of Health for taking steps to repair biomedical equipment at the facility. She told...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer is making an urgent appeal for persons to discontinue engaging in risky sexual behaviour and protect themselves and their partner at all times. Minister...

“Protect Your Love, Use a Glove” “Protect your love, use a glove” is the theme for this year’s observance of Safer Sex Week. The number of HIV/AIDS cases reported per...

Delivery of free eye care to the elderly in Portland and St. Thomas will be significantly enhanced, through eye screening clinics to be carried out by the Voluntary Optometric Services...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday February 1, passed the Health and Allied Professions and Services Miscellaneous Penalty Provisions Bill (2010), which, among other things, provides for an increase in...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-supported 'Bashy Bus' HIV prevention project has been extended to  St. Ann, with the handing over of a mobile unit to the St. Ann Health...

As the Government expands facilities for renal dialysis, to make the service more accessible, focus is being placed on training in nephrology, with 13 nurses and three tutors already in...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer has said that Government’s no user fee policy was a step in the right direction, as this was directly responsible for the increased access...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has commenced work on a protective wall in the vicinity of the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth. The wall which is being built on...

Cabinet has approved two contracts valued at $222,653, 782.27 for the procurement of antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV. One contract in the sum of $174, 488,848 has been...

Residents of Central Jamaica, who are in need of renal treatment, will no longer have to travel long distances to access the service. This, as the Government has opened a...