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21May

CARPHA Closely Monitors Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Through Early Warning and Surveillance Mechanisms

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 19, 2026. Following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration on May 16th 2026 that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the...

15May

CARPHA Urges Action on Excessive Salt Intake as Hypertension and Heart Disease Rise Across the Region

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. Between 21% and 27% of Caribbean adults are hypertensive, with many populations consuming nearly double the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation for salt. High sodium intake contributes to approximately 1.89 million deaths annually ...

15May

CARPHA Launches Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week 2026: Calls for Region-Wide Action on Source Reduction

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is leading the regional observance of Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week (CMAW) 2026 from May 11 to 15 under the theme “Stop Disease Transmission, Start Source Reduction” and the tagline “...

12May

CARPHA’s Pandemic Fund Enhances PCR Rapid Testing for Priority Pathogens in 10 CARPHA Member States

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 31, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the successful installation of Molbio rapid testing platforms across ten (10) CARPHA Member States under the Pandemic Fund Project. As of March 26, 2026, installations have be...

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CARPHA Closely Monitors Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Through Early Warning and Surveillance Mechanisms

5/21/2026 12:31:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 19, 2026. Following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration on May 16th 2026 that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Repub...
CARPHA Urges Action on Excessive Salt Intake as Hypertension and Heart Disease Rise Across the Region

5/15/2026 3:18:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. Between 21% and 27% of Caribbean adults are hypertensive, with many populations consuming nearly double the World Health Organization’s (WHO) re...
CARPHA Launches Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week 2026: Calls for Region-Wide Action on Source Reduction

5/15/2026 11:47:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is leading the regional observance of Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week (CMAW) 2026 from May 11 to 15 und...
CARPHA’s Pandemic Fund Enhances PCR Rapid Testing for Priority Pathogens in 10 CARPHA Member States

5/12/2026 4:50:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 31, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the successful installation of Molbio rapid testing platforms across ten (10) CAR...
CARPHA Strengthens Trinidad and Tobago’s Biosecurity Capacity to Safely Transport Infectious Substances

5/8/2026 8:37:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 7, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has strengthened Trinidad and Tobago’s biosafety and biosecurity capacity for the safe packaging and ...
CARPHA Urges Vigilance as Hantavirus Cluster Reported on Cruise Ship: Regional Risk Considered Low

5/7/2026 8:34:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 06 May, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is advising its Member States and the public that the risk of infection of hantavirus is low in the C...
CARPHA and Caribbean Airlines Partner to Improve Laboratory Sample Transport Across the Caribbean

4/28/2026 10:17:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 24, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) on April 17th 2026 formally signed an International Cargo Rate Agre...
CARPHA Strengthens Capacity in Belize to Advance Early Warning Surveillance and Response and Heathier, Safer Tourism

4/27/2026 2:53:00 PM

Belize City, Belize. April 15, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) of Belize, delivered targeted capacity building initi...
CARPHA and UKHSA Sign Partnership Extension to Advance Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Response Through the CARA Project

4/27/2026 12:06:00 PM

Georgetown, Guyana. 23 April, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have officially signed an extension of their strategic partnership under...
CARPHA Recognises Medical Laboratory Professionals Across the Caribbean During Laboratory Professionals Week 2026

4/27/2026 11:08:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. April 20, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) proudly extends sincere appreciation to all Medical Laboratory Professionals across the Region in observ...

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...
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.
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...
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...