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Hypertension is a Silent Invisible Killer, You Should Take Seriously

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Hypertension is a Silent Invisible Killer, You Should Take Seriously Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16, 2016: “Undiagnosed hypertension puts you at risk for a variety of other conditions. Knowing your blood pressure is an important part of health management” remarked Dr. C. James Hospedales, Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in observance of World Hypertension Day. High blood pressure, also called hypertension, means the pressure in your a...

Get Vaccinated, It Saves Lives!

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Get Vaccinated, It Saves Lives! Each year, immunization prevents an estimated 2-3 million deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and measles - life-threatening diseases that disproportionately affect children. Immunization is one of the world’s most successful public health initiatives. In observance of Vaccination Week 2016, Dr. Joy St. John Director of Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) said “it i...

CARPHA Observes World Cancer Day 2016

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CARPHA Observes World Cancer Day 2016 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 4, 2016. Cancers are the second leading cause of death in the Caribbean region. Breast cancer is the main cause of death among females, followed by cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable, yet it claims the lives of a large number of women in the Caribbean each year. The majority of cancer deaths in Caribbean men are due to prostate cancer, followed by lung cancer. L...

CARPHA to Chair International Group Seeking to Strengthen Vector Control Programmes

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CARPHA to Chair International Group Seeking to Strengthen Vector Control Programmes Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 14, 2016. Dr. Karen Polson Edwards, Assistant Director, Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has been appointed chair of the newly formed Technical Advisory Group on Public Health Entomology. The Advisory Group has been established to look at ways to strengthen vector control programs in Latin Americ...

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Vaccination Week in the Americas: Your Decision Makes a Difference. Immunisation For All

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 24, 2025. In 2002, following the last endemic measles outbreak in the Americas, the Ministers of Health of the Andean Region proposed a coordinated vacci...
CARPHA Strengthens Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies in Dominica

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Roseau, Dominica. April 22, 2025.The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Social Services, in Dominica, conducted a Monitoring and Ev...
CARPHA Enhances Strategic Collaborations with PAHO to Advance Public Health within the Region

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Port of Spain, Trinidad. April 2, 2025. Advancing public health, while reducing the Caribbean’s vulnerability to the introduction and spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, a...
CARPHA and Cornell University Strengthen Water Quality Monitoring Capacity in Barbados and Grenada

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Port of Spain, Trinidad. April 11, 2025. Two CARPHA Member States are now better equipped to monitor water quality and prevent water-related health threats, thanks to the donation of multi-parame...
When Ice Melts, Caribbean Islands Suffer: World Water Day 2025

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Castries, Saint Lucia. March 22nd, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) continues to join our international partners in the call for global action in securing our freshwater resources. We...
CARPHA Builds Capacity with Sandals Resorts International for Healthier Safer Tourism

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Port of Spain, Trinidad. March 21, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), through its Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP), continues to collaborate with Sandals Resorts International...
CARPHA Boosts Barbados’ Capacity and Preparedness for Major Mass Gatherings and Tourism Events

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Bridgetown, Barbados, 18 March, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has strengthened Barbados’ capacity to safeguard public health for both local and visitor populations espec...
Mental Health: The Hidden Pandemic

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Bridgetown, Barbados. 12 March 2025. Mental health is a growing public health issue. In the Caribbean in particular, mental health is influenced by a range of socio-economic factors, c...
CARPHA Encourages Early Detection Towards Preventing Kidney Disease in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 13, 2025. In 2019 kidney diseases were the fifth leading cause of death in the Non-Latin Caribbean region. In line with this year’s World Kidney Da...
CARPHA Advocates for Systemic Changes to Reduce Childhood Obesity

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 7, 2025. In the Caribbean region, one in every three children is overweight or obese. In 2022, the estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity in adults in...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is calling on persons to know their blood pressure, strive to keep it healthy or lower it. This is in keep...
CARPHA and CTO Launch Tourism and Health Programme

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CARPHA and CTO successfully launched the regional tourism and health programme and conducted an awareness and discussion workshop on Friday May 2, 2014 in Aruba. The keynote address was given by the M...
CARPHA’s new Chairman of the Board

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 02, 2013: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Honourable Colin Riley, Minister of Health of Montserrat...
Saint Lucia Joins Regional Project to Build Public Health Capacity

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Castries, Saint Lucia, September 04, 2014. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, Human Services and Gender Relations, in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is launching the Ca...
New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

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The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) moved today one step forward in its mission to provide strategic direction in analyzing, defining and responding to public health priorities of CARICOM, in ...
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

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The Center for Global Health of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), St. George's Un...
CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

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Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP) Trains New Mentors in Jamaica The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a four-day workshop in Kingston, Jam...
Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Direct...
Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats

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Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, June 19, 2016: "Risk communication is an important tool in managing health th...
Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 26, 2013. The Caribbean, like other regions in the Americas, experiences seasonal influenza activity. Improved health monitoring by Ministries of Health i...