Tag: maritime health

Vector Management Plan for Port of Kandla

Malaria infection continues to be a real risk for seafarers

ISWAN has launched new survey, aimed at women seafarers only which follows on from the Rapid Health Needs Questionnaire

2014 SAFETY4SEA Forum- Lawrence Jacobson

Compliance instructions for port entry and operation in India

A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a mariner from a cargo ship in the Gulf of Alaska 160 miles east of Kodiak

The French Ministry of Health has recently published an alert about the continued risk of the mosquito born chikungunya virus, with respect to outbreaks in the French West Indies and French Guyana.This virus is transmitted by mosquito bites and at present there is no vaccine or cure.

ISWAN, together with the International Transport Workers Federation, International Maritime Health Association and Seamens Hospital Society is carrying out a small pilot study which aims to gain a better understanding of women seafarers' health needs.

In the past 12 months the Republic of the Marshall Islands has received five reports of seafarers serving on board RMI flagged ships who were diagnosed with malaria

Seafarers welfare awareness campaign