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CARPHA Hosts Inaugural Regional Stakeholder Workshop for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 8 August 2024. The Caribbean region is especially vulnerable to the rapid transboundary spread of disease and has experienced numerous infectious disease outbreaks, including COVID-19, Cholera, HIV, Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, Norovirus, SARS, H1N1, which have had profound human, economic, and social impacts. The rapid transmission of COVID-19 to all Caribbean islands within a short period, further emphasises the vulnerability...

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

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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...

CARPHA Provides Health Response Support to Hurricane Devastated Member States

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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...

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

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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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Enhancing Emergency Communication Resilience with Satellite Phones

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In today’s world, phones have become essential to our daily lives—central hubs for connecting with family, friends, and the world around us. But what happens when these lifelines fail? Nat...
CARPHA Strengthens Capacity in Monitoring and Evaluation and Data Appreciation in Grenada

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Saint George’s, Grenada. December 11, 2024. Twenty-five professionals completed an intensive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Data Appreciation Training, designed to enhance their ability...
CARPHA Supports “Timeliness” Metrics to Strengthen the Caribbean’s Response to Health Threats

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Bridgetown, Barbados, December 6, 2024 – Public health professionals from five countries are now able to use timeliness performance metrics to improve the way the Caribbean region detects a...
CARPHA Successfully Launches Antigua and Barbuda Tourism and Health Program

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St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda. December 5, 2024 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Antigua and Barbuda Ministries of Health, Wel...
CARPHA Supports Mass Gathering Surveillance for Bahamas National Festivals

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Nassau, Bahamas. 25th November 2024. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with The Bahamas Ministry of Health and Wellness, conducted a mass gathering (MG) risk ass...
CARPHA Hosts Regional IATA Infectious Substances Transport "Train-the-Trainer" Workshop with the Pandemic Fund’s Support

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 29, 2024 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) concluded its Train-the-Trainer Workshop on the Safe Transportation of Infectious Su...
Caribbean Nations Join Forces to Combat Dengue and Arboviruses at Regional Workshop

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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Government of the Cayman Islands, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and the Pan Americ...
CARPHA One Health Workshop Brings Together Over 70 Experts to Strengthen Caribbean Food Safety and Disease Surveillance

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 18, 2024 – The Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) One Health Multidisciplinary Workshop to Promote Integrated Surveillance for Foodborne...
CARPHA Joins the Call to “Educate, Advocate, Act now” for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 18, 2024. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the dominating global public health and development threats.[1],[2] AMR occu...
CARPHA Collaborates with PAHO to Build Capacity in the Safe Handling and Shipping of Infectious Substances in Suriname

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Paramaribo, Suriname. 13 November 2024. In an effort to strengthen regional health security and reinforce biosafety and biosecurity protocols across the Region, the Caribbean Public Health...

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...