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Antigua St John's - Dr Merle Lewis, newly appointed PAHO/WHO Representative in the Office of Eastern Caribbean Coordination (ECC), recently met with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, senior staff at the Ministry of Health, including Chief Medical Officer Dr Rhonda Sealy-Thomas and Permanent Secretary Edson Joseph, and officials at the Mount St John's Medical Centre. |
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ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011 – Newly appointed Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Eastern Caribbean/Barbados Office, Dr. Merle Lewis, on Thursday presented letters of credence to Grenada’s Foreign Minister, Hon Karl Hood. |
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Washington, DC, September 23, 2011 (PAHO/WHO) -- Ministers of Health of all the countries of the Americas will gather at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) here on Monday, September 26, for their annual Directing Council meeting. |
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Hosted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Commonwealth Secretariat, Bridgetown, Barbados. Friday 5 – Saturday 6 August 2011. |
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 The Caribbean has made commendable efforts towards achieving universal access to primary health care – PHC. This encompasses the need to ensure social protection according to the Regional Declaration on Renewing Primary Health Care in the Americas and PAHO’s position paper on the same topic (CD46/13, 2005).
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The IHR is an international legally binding instrument on 194 countries (States Parties), including all 193 WHO Member States. Its pupose is to prevent, protect control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade. |
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Barbados, March 17, 2011. According to WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009, there are only 17 countries provide access to comprehensive treatment of tobacco dependence. |
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