Partnership initiative to help sustain HIV/AIDS gains

The Ministry of Public Health is currently piloting a tactical Public-Private Partnership (PPP) which will see it partnering with private physicians to join the...

DDL postpones Annual General Meeting until further notice

Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) Annual General Meeting that was scheduled to be held on April 3, 2020, has been postponed until further notice. The...

National Suicide Prevention Commission on the cards with passage of bill

The Ministry of Health’s ‘comprehensive and transformational’ Suicide Prevention Bill 2022 was on Monday passed in the National Assembly, enacting the decriminalisation of suicide...

India, population 1.3 billion, orders ‘complete’ coronavirus lockdown

New Delhi (CNN) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a "complete" lockdown for India's 1.3 billion people on Tuesday, warning that "many families will be destroyed...

COVID-19: 1759 households in 25 communities benefit from relief distribution

As the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues to work to bring relief to citizens and communities, which have been affected by the Ministry of...

COVID-19 Update: Guyana records another COVID-19 case; eight cases confirmed in two days

Director of Primary Health Care Services, Dr. Ertenisa Hamilton, reported today that Guyana has recorded another COVID-19 case; taking the total number of cases...

Message from Health Minister on Int’l Day of Persons With Disabilities

See full statement below: Theme: “Building Back Better: Toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world” Guyana is joining with the international community to once again...

COVID-19 Update: Guyana records two new cases; 10 more recover

Guyana has recorded two new cases of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); taking the total number of persons infected so far, to 127. Also, 10...

Matured vaccination programme bearing fruit

Guyana’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has matured from the initial tight focus on children when it began some 40 years ago to targeting...

PANCAP youth meeting to draft tactical HIV response roadmap

Set for July 30–August 2, 2019, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach...

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