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CARPHA’s 59th Caribbean Health Research Conference addresses Non-communicable Diseases as a Health and Economic Development Priority
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, April 28, 2014. Chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) remain a major cause for concern in the Region as the prevalence and mortality rates in the Caribbean are among the highest in the world, and the costs are not sustainable to families, business and government. For this reason, NCDs – Through the Life Course has been…
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Caribbean Wellness Day 2013
This year, Caribbean Wellness Day will be observed on Saturday, 14 September and it marks the sixth anniversary of the initiative. Inaugurated in 2008, Caribbean Wellness Day (CWD) is an annual event, observed on the second Saturday of September. Caribbean Wellness Day provides an advocacy opportunity to increase the awareness of the NCD burden in the Caribbean; mobilise and…
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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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PANCAP to host Bi-National Commission on health for Guyana & Suriname
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) in collaboration with the German International Cooperation (GIZ), EPOS Health Management and Ministry of Health Guyana will host a Bi-National Commission for Collaboration on Health for Guyana and Suriname from 11-13 July, 2013 in Georgetown, Guyana. The three day meeting to be held at the Guyana…
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Remarks at the Launching of the Caribbean Public Health Organization Dr. The Rt. Hon Denzil Douglas National Academy of the Performing Arts Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Celebrating a triumph of the spirit of regionalism Today we are gathered in this splendid environment of the National Academy of the Performing Arts in Port of Spain to celebrate an extraordinary achievement, the official launching of the Caribbean Public Health Agency. This is indeed a timely gift to the people of the Caribbean Community which marks its 40th anniversary…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) At The Launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
Today’s historic launch of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) demonstrates clearly to this Region how the co-operative deployment of many skills to achieve one objective can be of collective benefit. We had long recognised the desirability of creating such an institution. The Declaration of Needham’s Point issued by Heads of Government at their Twenty-Eighth Regular Meeting held in Barbados…
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Interview with John Edward Greene, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in the Caribbean
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoys for AIDS are committed individuals selected by the United Nations Secretary-General to help advance the AIDS agenda at global level and to ensure that AIDS is kept high as a political priority in their respective regions. In a series of interviews with Unaids.org, the Special Envoys for AIDS share their views on the state…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF REGIONAL COALITION ON WATER AND SANITATION FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CHOLERA IN THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, PAHO HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON DC. TUESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER, 2012
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Salutations. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which the Republic of Haiti is an integral part, welcomes this Regional Coalition for Water and Sanitation to Eliminate Cholera in the Island of Hispaniola. This initiative further consolidates efforts at addressing the public health challenge of the cholera epidemic which followed the devastating earthquake experienced by Haiti…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF REGIONAL COALITION ON WATER AND SANITATION FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CHOLERA IN THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, PAHO HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON DC. TUESDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER, 2012
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Salutations. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), of which the Republic of Haiti is an integral part, welcomes this Regional Coalition for Water and Sanitation to Eliminate Cholera in the Island of Hispaniola. This initiative further consolidates efforts at addressing the public health challenge of the cholera epidemic which followed the devastating earthquake experienced by Haiti…
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