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CARPHA Ready to Assist Dominica following the passage of Hurricane Maria
21Sep

CARPHA Ready to Assist Dominica following the passage of Hurricane Maria

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Hurricane Maria, the second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month made landfall on Dominica earlier this week. Maria a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane with sustained 155-mph winds pounded the island, causing widespread devastation to homes and infrastructure. CARPHA has already deployed staf...
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CARPHA Deploys Staff to Assist Hurricane-Devastated British Virgin Islands
16Sep

CARPHA Deploys Staff to Assist Hurricane-Devastated British Virgin Islands

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On Sunday, September 10, 2017, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), as part of the Regional Response Mechanism (RRM) which is spearheaded by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency Coordinating Unit (CDEMA-CU), deployed a member of staff to assist the British Virgin Islands (BVI) ...
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Total Community involvement essential to fighting the Aedes aegypti mosquito
05Aug

Total Community involvement essential to fighting the Aedes aegypti mosquito

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“Community participation is critical to the success of any programme designed to eliminate breeding sites of the Aedes aegypti mosquito.   Efforts are doomed to failure if even one household is negligent.”  So said Dr C James Hospedales, Executive Director of the Caribbean Publ...
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Regional Laboratories Prepare to Detect and Respond to New and Emerging Diseases
30Jul

Regional Laboratories Prepare to Detect and Respond to New and Emerging Diseases

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“Public health laboratories play a critical role in the fight against communicable diseases, specifically vector-borne diseases, to better prepare the Region to detect and respond to new and emerging threats,” stated Dr Karen Polson-Edwards, Acting Director, Surveillance, Disease Prevent...
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  • CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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...

  • Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats

    6/21/2016 4:16:00 AM
    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...
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