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Barbados Advocate
April 23, 2018
Over the weekend, public health nurses have been in the field for a week of awareness that started on Saturday April 21 and will conclude on Saturday April ... Describing vaccines as the “most revolutionary public invention of our time” Dr. George says that it is important that the Ministry of Health constantlyÃâà...
Curacao Chronicle
April 5, 2018
The Collective Prevention Services (CPS), a department in the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour (Ministry VSA), continues to monitor developments related to yellow fever, and has been doing so since January 2017 by having its surveillance mechanism on alert for any potentialÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2018
Malala Yousafzai, the world's youngest Nobel laureate, returned to Pakistan for the first time since she was gravely wounded there by a Taliban attack in 2012. Ms. Yousafzai, now studying at Oxford, is expected to stay mostly in Islamabad, the capital, during her four-day visit. She met Prime Minister ShahidÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 7, 2018
In Ecuador, I commend the Government for conducting a very broad dialogue, including with media and human rights defenders, as a first step towards ..... the cancellation or suspension of registration of thousands of NGOs, including groups advocating for human rights and even public health groups.
Global Voices Online
March 7, 2018
The situation has attracted the attention of bodies within the United Nations (UN) in terms of fulfillment of the Ecuadorian State code of law, which punishes torture ... authorities visited and took the measure for “breach of rules and requirements” as published on the website of the Ministry of Public Health.
Dialogo Americas (blog)
March 6, 2018
The seizure of 30 tons of cocaine in 2017 reflects the Costa Rican effort—an integrated joint effort between Costa Rica's Public Force, National Coast Guard Service, Aerial Surveillance Service, and Drug Control Police, all entities of the Ministry of Public Security (MSP, in Spanish). These agencies are allÃâà...
Dialogo Americas (blog)
March 6, 2018
The seizure of 30 tons of cocaine in 2017 reflects the Costa Rican effort—an integrated joint effort between Costa Rica's Public Force, National Coast Guard Service, Aerial Surveillance Service, and Drug Control Police, all entities of the Ministry of Public Security (MSP, in Spanish). These agencies are allÃâà...
Maritime Herald
March 1, 2018
This was announced on Tuesday by the Ministry of Public Security (MSP), which detailed that the drug was coming from two vessels that were intercepted ... to intercept the boats are part of the joint patrol with the United States and the southern regional block, composed of Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
Curacao Chronicle
February 16, 2018
In 2017, five countries reported an increase in malaria cases: Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. ... The Collective Prevention Services (CPS), a department in the Ministry of Public Health, Social Development and Labour (Ministry VSA), will continue to monitor developments related toÃâà...
NewNowNext
February 10, 2018
Ecuador's public health ministry maintains that no evidence of “conversion therapy” was found in more than 60 clinics it has shuttered since 2016 for unsanitary conditions or for operating without a license. “There are no de-homosexualization clinics,” says representative Maria Jose Espin. “They shouldn'tÃâà...
New York Times
February 7, 2018
Kellogg declined to comment. Soaring obesity rates are forcing governments around the world to confront one of the more serious threats to public health in a generation. ... Today, three-quarters of adults are overweight or obese, according to the country's health ministry. Officials have been particularlyÃâà...
Intercontinental Cry
February 1, 2018
A noteworthy quality of Afro-Ecuadorian traditional medicine in Northern Esmeraldas is that women are often the carriers and purveyors of these practices, a striking difference from ... She is also a licensed auxiliary nurse and worked in the Public Health Ministry for 18 years, only having recently retired.
Yahoo News
December 31, 1999
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Group of Seven industrialized nations condemned the alleged chemical attack in eastern Ghouta in Syria on April 7 and backed "proportionate" efforts by the United States, Britain and France to stop the future use of such weapons. "We fully support efforts made by the United States,Ãâà...
The Herald-Times
December 31, 1999
The comments came as Trump tried to reassure visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the U.S. and Japan "are locked and we are very ..... in the border area between Ecuador and Colombia after three abductees were killed last week, Ecuadorean Interior Minister Cesar Navas said Tuesday.
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