Tag: Vector Control Services
Technical Working Group activated to ensure adequate prevention, diagnosis and management of Dengue
Dengue is endemic to Guyana and the Region of the Americas. Every few years there is a cyclical increase in ... Read More
Fogging exercise starts today on East Coast Demerara
The Ministry of Health - Vector Control Services is starting its fogging exercise in Demerara-Mahaica (Region Four) today, on the ... Read More
Advisory from the Vector Control Services
Advisory from the Vector Control Services Ministry of Public Health Residents are hereby notified that there will be a fogging ... Read More
Triple drug therapy against filaria to roll out shortly
─ media sensitised on preventative campaign efforts ─ Guyana, one of two countries in Americas to eliminate filaria by 2020 ... Read More
Bartica Vector Control Services Unit refurbished
– now able to provide better services ─ facilitating monitoring and evaluation DPI, Guyana, Friday, January 4, 2019 The Vector ... Read More
Public Health Ministry adopts new drug in fight to eliminate filaria
DPI, Guyana, Monday, October 8, 2018 The Ministry of Public Health is to add a third medication to two pills ... Read More
Vector Control Services roll out second Schools’ Language & Arts competition
DPI, Guyana, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 For the next two months, children between the ages of six to seventeen (6-17), ... Read More
Stakeholders urged to intensify awareness of NIDs campaigns
DPI, Guyana, Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Stakeholders in the health sector met today for a one-day workshop at the Herdmanston ... Read More
New strategies for Mass Drug Administration 2017
DPI, Guyana, Tuesday, August 8, 2017 Another year is here and the Neglected Infectious Diseases section of the Vector Control ... Read More
Ministry of Public Health aims to eliminate ‘filaria’ by 2022
GINA, GUYANA, Monday, January 30, 2017 The Ministry of Public Health will be working to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis commonly known ... Read More