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...
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...
Meeting between Guyana and Suriname to strengthen cooperation to combat COVID-19
Officials of Guyana and Suriname met via video conference on Monday 20 April 2020,
with a view to establishing modalities for cooperation to combat the...
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...
Four more fatalities take COVID-19 death toll to 687
Four more persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. This takes the total number of deaths from the pandemic to...
Visitation ban to be lifted at Infectious Diseases Hospital
The Health Ministry will be lifting the visitation restrictions in place at the Infectious Diseases Hospital as early as next week.
Speaking during today’s COVID-19...
Local HIV treatment facilities are “stigma-free” zones- Dr. Leslie Ramsammy reassures
Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy recently sought to reassure Guyanese living with HIV that the government will continue to play...
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...
2024 Budget: Mobile app to improve care for diabetes patients; HIV among 11 diseases...
The Diabetes Comprehensive Centre at Lusignan will soon be rolling out a mobile app to monitor patients’ nutrition, exercise and other lifestyle data. The...
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...
