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Adolescent Pregnancy is not just a Health issue – UNFPA
UNFPA Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean has embarked on a sexual and reproductive health information programme, to increase awareness about the health and development challenges posed by adolescent pregnancy, and provoke action to address the problem in the region. Through the public education programme, UNFPA has sought to highlight elements of the Integrated Strategic Framework for the Reduction of…
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CARPHA continues to battle Dengue, Chikungunya; prepares for Zika
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – Vector borne diseases, such as Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, continue to emerge in the Caribbean, threatening health, tourism, social and economic development. According to Dr. Joy St. John, Director of Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) “in the last decade, the Caribbean has been wrestling with wave after wave…
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Director, Pancap Coordinating Unit Message On The Occasion Of 2015 World Aids Day
This year’s World AIDS Day theme “Ending the AIDS epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, is aligned to the new PANCAP Vision – An AIDS Free Caribbean and reminds us of the need to retain the HIV response within the post 2015 global agenda. Director, Pancap Coordinating Unit Mr Dereck Springer Earlier this year on September…
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UNAIDS: Caribbean can accelerate progress to end AIDS as public health threat
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday November 25, 2015 – The Caribbean is being told it can build on the gains of its HIV responses to end AIDS as a public health threat, if it follows a new strategy created by the United Nations’ Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A new global HIV report released yesterday ahead of World AIDS Day, ‘Focus…
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AIDS deaths down by 61% in Caribbean
In the last ten years alone the Caribbean achieved a 61 per cent reduction in Aids-related deaths, according to a report, titled Focus on location and population: Fast track to end Aids by 2030, which was released from UNAids World yesterday. December 1 marks World Aids Day. The report said since 2000, new infections in the region had declined by…
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CARIBBEAN: HIV/AIDS elimination by 2030
The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) initiated a Justice for All program in September 2013, that was designed to achieve broad based goals for ending AIDS in the region. The goals included enhancing family life and focusing on those in need; increasing access to treatments and affordable medicines; reducing gender inequality and violence against women and girls;…
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CARPHA Executive Director Appeals for Balance when Pursuing Economic Growth in the Region
Castries, Saint Lucia, November 19, 2015: Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr C James Hospedales said economic growth should not come at the expense of healthy people and a healthy environment; and referred to this imbalance as one of the greatest challenges this Region faces. Dr Hospedales was speaking at the opening of a three-day Caribbean…
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PM Skerrit appeals for Regional health scheme
A fresh appeal has been made to heads of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) for the implementation of a regional health scheme as the region faces a rise in Chronic Non Communicable Diseases (CNCDs). Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made the call at the 62nd OECS Authority Meeting which is currently underway in Dominica. He said when persons are…
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Caribbean Environmental Experts Seek Solutions for Climate Change and Public Health Challenges
Castries, Saint Lucia – The Caribbean, mainly comprised of small island nations, is the world’s most tourist-dependent region, and one of the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Within recent times, the Region has experienced more frequent and severe storms and hurricanes, increases in mosquito-borne diseases, rises in sea level, prolonged periods of drought and salt water intrusion of…
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UN wants greater action to stem diabetes in Caribbean
UNITED NATIONS, (CMC) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the people of the Caribbean must take steps towards a healthy lifestyle while governments create conditions to stem the global epidemic of diabetes. In his message to mark World Diabetes Day on Saturday, the secretary- general reiterated the warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) that diabetes will be the seventh…
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