 The Bureau of Health Education within the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs has received support through UNICEF to ensure continued efforts at COVID-19 infection prevention and control in communities. One component of this support entails conducting a series of training seminars with key partners in communities. One of the targeted partners are the Home Health Caregivers. The Shwazel caregivers were recently provided with this training. They were equipped with the knowledge and skills to properly undertake infection prevention and control measures in providing care to their elderly and home-born clientele to ensure their duties are performed in a safe manner. Health Educator in the Bureau of Health Education, Louisa Wilson says, there is a need to strengthen the caregiver's knowledge on infection prevention as to protect themselves and their clients from viruses and infections. The reason why we're doing this training session is because we want to continue emphasizing infection prevention and control measures as it relates to COVID-19. We also want to teach our participants healthy living lifestyles and also we want to ensure that they continue living healthy lifestyles at home and also impact their community members as well as family members to teach them about healthy lifestyles. They work with high-risk groups that are the elderly as well as persons with disability. As we all know, these persons sometimes they have underlining health conditions and these persons by teaching them they can better impact the lives of these persons, persons that are at high risk. Wilson says it is her hope that the knowledge gained from this training will impact the lives of the caregivers and that of the clients. One of the things that we really want them to learn, we want them to continue practicing the infection prevention and control measures as it relates to COVID-19. We want them to continue practicing the cleaning and disinfecting methods at home, at the persons home that they're taking care of. Also we're also introducing to them the chronic disease self-management program where they can learn a little bit more about the different chronic diseases and how to cope with their clients a little bit better. The training focused on areas such as hand washing, mask wearing, sanitation, nutrition and healthy lifestyle. This training will also benefit other infection prevention and control programs, including strengthening of our response to the threat of monkeypox. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I am Fidel Neptune.