Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community under
the Nassau Declaration 2001 committed to the
following:
1. Implement initiatives and targets to
achieve an improved health status of the
Caribbean populations within the next five
years, emphasizing leadership, strategic
planning, management, implementation and
resource mobilisation in the context of health
sector reform processes that are underway.
2. Build on current regional and sub-regional
initiatives and seek to establish a series of
networks, each with specific roles and
responsibilities, in a coordinated regional
structure that can respond to the needs of the
ordinary Caribbean citizen and designed to
ensure equity in access to quality preventive
and care regimes.
3. Implement the Caribbean Co-operation in
Health (CCH) Phase II as the framework under
which all regional and sub-regional, national
and institutional sector plans for health would
be considered.
4. Ensure that the CCH II Secretariat, which
is to be jointly administered, by CARICOM and
PAHO be made operational by relying on the
regional and sub-regional institutions to lead
on several issues and provide the services
required by Member States and to that end these
institutions will be reviewed to determine their
adequacy, competitiveness and strategic
advantages for the Region; and ensuring that the
Pan-Caribbean Partnership on HIV/AIDS
established in March 2001 provide a model with
its primary mandate to mobilize resources for
the implementation of the Regional Strategic
Plan on HIV/AIDS.
5. Enhance, within the context of the CSME,
areas related to the collective effort by all
Caribbean countries for joint representation to
exert a greater influence on decision making in
the international arena which will favour the
Region's interests;
6. Support the approaches to promotion and
prevention, as a responsibility, in relation to
security of our assets; treatment of those
persons as an investment in the preservation of
our human capital - a cost benefit strategy for
sustaining productivity and services, and a
human rights obligation.
7. Give priority to institutional
strengthening of the CCH II Secretariat and
recognize that the sustainability of the
Community’s efforts will require attention to
the involvement of civil society and the other
specialized stakeholders.
