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27Mar

Incidences of Foodborne Ailments on the Rise in the Caribbean Region

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Every year, thousands of people in the Caribbean experience food-borne illnesses, after exposure to contaminated food or drink. Persons affected usually experience severe diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain, sometimes accompanied by fever, headaches and other symptoms. Recent increases in reported inc...

22Mar

Regional Experts Lay Groundwork for Unified Response to Vector-Borne Diseases

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“Although Dengue has been in the Region for years, with the introduction of Chikungunya in 2013 and now Zika, vector-borne diseases (VBDs) have become very prominent, taking center stage,” stated Dr Karen Polson-Edwards, Acting Director, Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control at CA...

07Feb

Zika Cases on the Decline, But the War on Mosquitoes is Far from Over

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“Even though the number of cases of Zika have significantly declined from the outbreak of 2016, there is still need for continued vigilance and action on mosquito borne diseases, which pose a health security threat, a tourism threat, and an economic threat,” stated Dr C. James Hospedales...

24Jan

Aviation and Health Working Together in the Caribbean

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Air connectivity is an important factor in the delivery of health services to the Caribbean region. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) understands this, and explores how working with the Caribbean Public Health Agency is key to ensuring a healthy Caribbean. The services provided have...

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CARPHA Hosts Regional Partners Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance with Global and Regional Stakeholders

3/17/2026 5:45:00 PM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 17 March, 2026. In early March, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a Regional Partners Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) at its Headquarters...
CARPHA partners with GOARN for Intensive Outbreak Response Scenario Programme to Advance Caribbean Emergency and Response Readiness

3/17/2026 5:35:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 16 March, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Respo...
CARPHA Partners with the University of Oslo to Advance GIS and DHIS2 Capacity for Stronger Regional Public Health Surveillance

3/13/2026 10:55:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 03, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the University of Oslo, successfully conducted an intensive five-d...
CARPHA Calls for Early Testing and Healthier Lifestyles as Caribbean Marks World Kidney Day

3/12/2026 2:31:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 12, 2026. In 2023, 14.2% of adults globally were living with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In Latin America and the Caribbean, the prevalence was 15.4%, placi...
CARPHA Commemorates Handover of Public Health Relief Supplies to Support Jamaica’s Post-Hurricane Melissa Response and Recovery

3/10/2026 9:52:00 AM

Kingston, Jamaica. March 10, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) reaffirmed its full solidarity and commitment to supporting Jamaica’s public health response and recovery effo...
CARPHA Champions Urgent Regional Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Create Healthier Caribbean Food Environments on World Obesity Day

3/4/2026 10:53:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 4, 2026: On World Obesity Day, a unified day of action to raise awareness and drive solutions for its prevention and treatment, the Caribbean Public Health Ag...
CARPHA Underscores the Importance of Insecticide Resistance Testing Amid Chikungunya Resurgence

2/20/2026 4:43:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | February 20, 2026: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is reminding its Member States (CMS) about the importance of the Integrated Vector Management (IVM) ...
CARPHA Participates in IDB’s ONE Caribbean Connect Regional Policy Dialogue on Digital Health Data

2/20/2026 3:03:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 20, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening digital health collaboration in the region through i...
PAHO and CARPHA Sign Landmark 2026–2030 Framework Agreement to Strengthen Regional Health Collaboration

2/13/2026 10:57:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 13 February, 2026. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) formalised their continued partnership with the signi...
CARPHA Champions People-Centred Cancer Care Across the Caribbean in Support for World Cancer Day

2/10/2026 10:17:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. February 4, 2026: Each year on February 4th, the global community commemorates World Cancer Day, an international observance dedicated to raising awarenes...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

5/16/2014 5:08:00 PM

Hypertension

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

7/5/2014 1:45:00 PM

Tourism

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

11/12/2013 4:17:00 PM

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

9/9/2014 5:03:00 PM

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

2/13/2014 11:21:00 AM

Laboratory, Biosafety

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 ...
CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

9/3/2015 4:50:00 AM

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...
GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

6/27/2014 11:32:00 AM

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...
CARPHA Issues its First Emergency Use Recommendation for a COVID-19 Vaccine

3/9/2021 5:27:00 PM

CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) issued its first certificate of recommendation for emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine COVISHIELD™ to CARPHA Member States on 2nd March, 2021.
Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

11/8/2014 3:23:00 PM

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...
Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

11/12/2013 4:56:00 PM

Influenza, Virus, Vaccination

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...