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February 2007 |
Objectives of
proposed Summit on Chronic Non-Communicable
Diseases (NCDs) articulated by the Hon. Dr
Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts and
Nevis and the Lead Head for Health in the Quasi
Cabinet of CARICOM Heads of Government
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|
2005 |
Caribbean
Commission on Health and Development (CCHD)
reported to the 26th Meeting of the CARICOM
Heads of Government |
|
2003 |
Task force arising
from the 2001 Nassau Summit established as
Caribbean Commission on Health and Development (CCHD |
|
2002 |
CARICOM Ministers
of Health, meeting in the Council for Human and
Social Development (COHSOD) to finalise the
Regional Strategic Plan for the Prevention and
Control of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases,
subsequently approved by the CARICOM Heads of
Government |
|
2001 |
Pan Caribbean
Partnership Against HIV/AIDS established by
CARICOM Heads of Government |
|
2001 |
Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) Heads of Government, at Summit in
Nassau, The Bahamas, asserted in the Nassau
Declaration that “The Health of the Region is
the Wealth of the Region”. The Heads of
Government mandated the establishment of a task
force to formulate a blueprint of strategies to
give effect to the Nassau Declaration. They also
instructed that a Regional Strategic Plan for
the Prevention and Control of the Chronic
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) be submitted
for approval by March 2002 |
|
2001 |
CARICOM Heads of
Government signed the Revised Treaty of
Chaguaramas, which includes under its Article 17
the establishment of the Council for Human and
Social Development (COHSOD) to “promote the
improvement of health, including the development
and organisation of efficient and affordable
health services in the Community” |
|
1998 |
In recognition of
the inclusion of non-Commonwealth countries in
its ranks and the need to broaden its scope to
include other areas of health, the CCMRC was
transformed into the Caribbean Health Research
Council (CHRC) |
|
1984 |
Caribbean
Cooperation in Health (CCH) Initiative adopted
to identify priority health areas and use them
as vehicles to optimise the use of resources and
to foster technical cooperation among the
countries; develop projects in the priority
areas as a way to solve critical health problems
and as vehicles for improving the overall health
delivery system; and mobilise all national and
external resources to address the most important
health problems of the neediest groups
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1975 |
Caribbean
Epidemiology Centre (CAREC), a specialised
centre of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO),
established in Port of Spain as an institution
dedicated to disease surveillance and control
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1972 |
The Caribbean
Ministers of Health in their annual meeting
agreed to the establishment of a Commonwealth
Caribbean Medical Research Council CCMRC), as
successor to the Standing Advisory Committee for
Medical Research to promote and coordinate
medical research in the Caribbean and to advise
the region’s Governments on related matters
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1969 |
Conferences of
Caribbean Ministers of Health institutionalised
under the auspices of the Caribbean Free Trade
Area (CARIFTA), forerunner of the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) |
|
1967 |
The Caribbean Food
& Nutrition Institute (CFNI), a specialised
centre of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO)
established to forge a regional approach to
solving the nutrition problems of the Caribbean
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|
1956 |
First Council and
Scientific Meeting of the SAC |
|
1955 |
Standing Advisory
Council (SAC) for Medical Research in the
British Caribbean established |
