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Depression, one of the leading causes of disability, affects nearly 50 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean. This disease is treatable, yet six out of every ten people who have depression do not seek or do not receive the treatment they need. “This disease is a major ...
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The Caribbean as a tourist destination took centre stage at the World Travel Market, the largest gathering of global tourism stakeholders. Highlighting the work of its Tourism and Health Programme, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), became the first regional health institution to be...
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The Caribbean, and countries of the Americas, are first in the world to be declared free of local measles transmission. This historic announcement was recently made by the International Expert Committee for Documenting and Verifying Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Eliminati...
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A Healthy Environment: Key to Our Children’s Health Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 10, 2016: “About 1 in every 5 of our Caribbean children carries unhealthy weight and is at risk of developing costly non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and other problems later in life,&rdquo...
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