CARPHA calls on Member States to “Close the Gap” by providing “Breastfeeding Support for All” this World Breastfeeding Week 2024

CARPHA calls on Member States to “Close the Gap” by providing “Breastfeeding Support for All” this World Breastfeeding Week 2024

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.  5 August 2024.  Breastfeeding has long been recognised as an important contributor to child nutrition, health and survival and as such needs to be protected, promoted and supported throughout the Region and worldwide. Breastfeeding reduces the risk of malnutrition (under and over nutrition) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for both the mother and the child. Infants that are breastfed longer, have a 13% lower risk of overweight and obes...
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CARPHA Donates Public Health Supplies to Grenada to Support Recovery Efforts Post of Hurricane Beryl

CARPHA Donates Public Health Supplies to Grenada to Support Recovery Efforts Post of Hurricane Beryl

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 5th August 2024. In response to the recent catastrophic hurricane that struck Carriacou and Petite Martinique of Grenada, and Union Island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)  has purchased essential public health supplies to assist in improving hygiene, sanitation and the prevention and control of vector borne and other infectious diseases. The donation to Grenada was made  on July 31st  ...
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CARPHA Provides Health Response Support to Hurricane Devastated Member States

CARPHA Provides Health Response Support to Hurricane Devastated Member States

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. July 17, 2024.  The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) began its regional response to hurricane-impacted Caribbean Islands on July 1, 2024.  Hurricane Beryl made landfall in the Caribbean as a Category 4 Hurricane on July 1, causing significant destruction and impacting on lives and livelihoods. Beryl affected Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago, Cayman Islands and Jamaica resulting in fatalities, injuries, flo...
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St. Kitts and Nevis Receive Training in Biosafety and Safe Transportation of Infectious Substances

St. Kitts and Nevis Receive Training in Biosafety and Safe Transportation of Infectious Substances

Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis, 16 July 2024. Nineteen (19) participants from nine laboratories across the Federation successfully completed the Shipping of Infectious Substances and Laboratory Biosafety Practices training, facilitated by the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) who are International Air Transport Association (IATA) certified. The five-day workshop, held from 8–12 July at the St. Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce Building, resulted in the training of lab...
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  • CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...