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10Oct

Obesity and Overweight on the Rise Among Women in the Caribbean

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Being obese, places an individual at a high risk for developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases, later in life. Non-communicable diseases and childhood obesity1 are priority health and economic issues for health officials worldwide...

09Oct

Field Testers Trained to Conduct Rapid Testing in Communities Towards Ending HIV Infection

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The CARICOM region is making testing for HIV/AIDS more accessible to key at-risk populations. Knowing one’s status is important, as the Caribbean continues to demonstrate the highest HIV prevalence in the Western Hemisphere and the second highest in the world, after Sub Saharan Africa.&n...

11Sep

Caribbean Regulators adopt Framework to Strengthen Regulatory Systems

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San Salvador, El Salvador. Senior government pharmacists and regulators from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, participated in the biannual Pan Ame...

04Jun

Health is a Critical Resource for Living

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"Health is a human right and a critical resource for living. There is general recognition that health and access to health services are essential to individual, community and national development. CARPHA has acted on that recognition through its provision public health services to Member States," st...

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CARPHA Strengthens Regional Vector-Borne Disease Early Warning Systems Through Integrated Vector Management and New Technologies

12/17/2025 11:16:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 17, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has concluded a three-day Regional Multisectoral Workshop on Strengthening Integrated Vector Ma...
CARPHA Boosts Capacity in The Bahamas to Advance Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response and Healthier Safer Tourism

12/16/2025 1:49:00 PM

Nassau, Bahamas. December 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)’s Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP) has strengthened national capacity for pandemic preparedness, pre...
CARPHA and Saint Kitts and Nevis Finalise Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plan

12/16/2025 1:22:00 PM

Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis. December 12, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN) successful...
CARPHA and the Small Arms Survey Forge Strategic Partnership to Advance Caribbean Health and Security Frameworks

12/16/2025 10:10:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 5, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Small Arms Survey formalised a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum ...
New Report Calls For Coordinated, Multi-sectoral Action to Tackle Firearm-related Violence and Trafficking in the Caribbean

12/4/2025 8:43:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 2 December 2025 – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA),...
CARPHA Strengthens Antigua and Barbuda’s Capacity for Pesticide Monitoring and Environmental Health Surveillance

12/3/2025 3:29:00 PM

St. John’s, Antigua. November 27, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment, successfully hosted a four-day tr...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Alert Surveillance Systems for Vector-Borne Diseases Through Data Analysis Capacity Building Workshop

12/3/2025 8:59:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 2, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully concluded a two-day regional workshop in Trinidad and Tobago “Streng...
CARPHA and Guyana’s Ministry of Health Launch its 70th Annual Health Research Conference: A Historic Milestone for Regional Public Health.

11/28/2025 9:17:00 AM

Georgetown, Guyana. November 28, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in partnership with the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana (Guyana), through the Ministry of Hea...
CARPHA Advances One Health and Regional Health Security through Second Integrated Foodborne Diseases and Zoonoses Workshop

11/26/2025 10:02:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 26, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully hosted its second One Health Multidisciplinary Workshop to Promote Integrated ...
CARPHA and Turks and Caicos Islands Strengthen Climate-Resilient Water Safety Systems

11/21/2025 9:51:00 PM

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. November 19, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), in collaboration with the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Ministry of Health and Human Ser...

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...
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...
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.