Published 3 February 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
by: Media Source
St.Kitts-Nevis signs PAHO multi-country cooperation strategy for the next six years
Washington, DC, (2 February 2018 )St.Kitts-Nevis Ambassador to the United States Her Excellency Dr. Thelma Phillip Browne joined the Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Carissa F. Etienne and other High-level officials from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, today in signing a new multicountry strategy for technical cooperation in health through 2024.
The new strategy is the second agreement of its kind between PAHO and this group of countries. It focuses on achieving previously unmet goals while also addressing new challenges the countries face, including health sector reform required to respond to the needs of aging populations, the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases, and the health effects of climate change, among others.
