Health

  • September 13, 2013
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    Statement by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the occasion of Caribbean Wellness Day, 14 September 2013

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Six years after the historic signing by Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) of the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration ‘Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs’, the people of the Region are once again invited to join the Wellness Revolution as we observe Caribbean Wellness Day 2013. The Declaration is the outcome of…

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    September 5, 2013
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    PANCAP APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Mr. Dereck Anthony Springer has been appointed Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP). Mr. Springer, a public health practitioner, behavioural scientist and strategic manager brings to the position 20 years of experience in the health sector, focusing on HIV and mental health. His extensive experience in policy, management and…

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  • January 22, 2012
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    CARPHA TO COLLABORATE WITH CARIBBEAN TOURIST ORGANIZATION ON QUALITY TOURISM

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) which started its operations this month under Interim Director, Dr. Jerome Walcott, former Minister of Health, Barbados was a subject of discussion at the Council of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, held during the Market Place Conference in Nassau The Bahamas on 22 January 2012 After receiving a presentation…

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  • December 17, 2011
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    SURINAMESE YOUTH PROGRAMME A REGIONAL BEST PRACTICE

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque deemed the Surinamese Youth programmes as a regional Best Practice. On the second day of his official visit to Suriname, the Secretary-General was brought up to date on the activities and plans of Surinamese youth and was particularly impressed by the exciting programmes outlined to…

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  • December 14, 2011
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    CARICOM CHOLERA-RESPONSE PROJECT UNDERWAY IN HAITI

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is executing a project to improve sanitation infrastructure and to sensitize residents of a Cite Soleil community in Haiti in the practice of safe personal and community hygiene. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project is being undertaken in support of Haiti’s national strategy to combat the cholera…

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  • December 10, 2011
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    CARICOM Second Annual Meeting on NCDs set for Trinidad and Tobago

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) / IADB Regional surveillance project will hold its Second Meeting of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Focal Points and Chief Medical Officers in Trinidad and Tobago on 11- 13 December, 2011 This…

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  • December 2, 2011
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    TAKE ACTION TO ACHIEVE ELIMINATION OF HIV – CARICOM SG

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General has sounded a call to action toward achieving the elimination of HIV and AIDS, in the Caribbean and the world. “World AIDS Day and its focus on “Zero” is an opportunity for all of us – individuals, communities and political leaders, to take action and…

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  • December 2, 2011
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    PANCAP CAN ACHIEVE UNAIDS’ THREE ZEROS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) is well poised to undertake UNAIDS’ challenge of “Getting to Zero: Zero Discrimination, Zero New Infections and Zero AIDS-related deaths.” In his World AIDS Day 2011 message, The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and PANCAP Chair said it was…

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  • November 18, 2011
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    PANCAP URGED TO BECOME A LEADER IN HUMAN RIGHTS

        (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been called upon to revamp the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) by establishing the Partnership as the Caribbean’s leader in promoting human rights and developing legislation to protect the rights of those persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.…

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  • November 16, 2011
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    EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE LEADS TO STRESS RELATED ILLNESS IN YOUTH, SAY CARICOM OFFICIAL

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Heather Johnson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development says, young people who are constantly exposed to violence invariably develop complex psychosomatic illnesses which very often lead to other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, mental illnesses and heart diseases. Dr Johnson who also majored in psychology was delivering…

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