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Food safety – Everyone’s responsibility
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 7, 2015: “Food safety: from farm to plate, make food safe” is the theme of World Health Day 2015. On 7 April 2015, the Caribbean and the rest of the world will focus on the challenges and opportunities for food safety along the whole length of the food chain from production and transport, to preparation…
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Traditional herbal remedies harnessed to treat chikungunya in Antigua
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Tuesday March 31, 2015 – Last summer, 38-year-old Sira Berzas from Antigua and Barbuda was struck down with chikungunya, the mosquito-borne disease that has swept through the Caribbean infecting more than 800,000 people since it was first detected in the region in December 2013. The debilitating virus, which originated in Africa and derives its name from a word…
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Stem cell research and treatment facility to be established in St Kitts
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (WINN) — Plans are in the works to establish a stem cell research and treatment center in St Kitts in the near future. The plans were make public at a press conference organized by the St Kitts biomedical Research Foundation following the Foundation’s Strategy Conference on Reverse Aging Treatments in the presence of several international scientists and…
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GHESKIO Opens New Tuberculosis Hospital in Haiti
In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Haitian Study Group on Opportunistic Infections and Kaposi's Sarcoma, or GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease. The hospital's opening comes five years after a catastrophic earthquake crippled Haiti's infrastructure and destroyed the five major TB hospitals in the capital city,…
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ECLAC, UNAIDS sign agreement to support regional response to HIV-AIDS
SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 26, CMC – The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America aimed at promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to HIV/AIDS. The MOU signed by ECLAC’s executive secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and César Núñez, regional director…
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Dietary Guidelines For Jamaica Established
KINGSTON, March 25, 2015 – Jamaica has joined six other Caribbean countries in implementing its own dietary guidelines with the aim of improving the nutritional well-being of citizens. The Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Jamaica, form part of efforts by the Government to provide nutrition and health-related recommendations to promote healthy eating habits and lifestyle in the population. The guidelines are…
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Tubercolosis (TB) is still a Health Threat In The Caribbean
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, March 23, 2015: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) joins the Region in observing World Tuberculosis (TB) day. The Day is used to build public awareness that TB remains a major global health problem, responsible for illness among 9 million new people each year, and deaths of 1.5 million. Worldwide, TB ranks as the second leading…
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Healthcare Tourism On The Rise In The Caribbean
CAYMAN ISLANDS (March 24, 2015) – Healthcare tourism is listed as an opportunity for the Caribbean region according to an article outlining “13 Opportunities for the New Caribbean.” In Caribbean Journal, an online news source, Curaçao-based development consultants, Miguel Goede and Runy Calmera, cite opportunities ranging from the film industry, higher education to ecotourism and sports, and note the special…
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TB is still a Health Threat in the Caribbean – CARPHA
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, March 23, 2015: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) joins the Region in observing World Tuberculosis (TB) day. The Day is used to build public awareness that TB remains a major global health problem, responsible for illness among 9 million new people each year, and deaths of 1.5 million. Worldwide, TB ranks as the second leading…
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Major Caribbean public health Issues being addressed by CARPHA
The Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARPHA is working to address the most prominent health issues within public health in the Caribbean. At a recent executive board meeting held by Heads of CARPHA, several of these problem areas were discussed including local management of diseases. Executive Director of CARPHA, Dr. C James Hospedales explained that collaboration among all sectors is critical…
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