CARPHA Strengthens Caribbean Capacity for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance and Response
26May

CARPHA Strengthens Caribbean Capacity for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance and Response

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Georgetown, Guyana. May 26, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has further strengthened the Caribbean’s capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to vector-borne diseases through the advancement of harmonised regional early warning systems and the integration of new technologies ...
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CARPHA Closely Monitors Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Through Early Warning and Surveillance Mechanisms
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...
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CARPHA Urges Action on Excessive Salt Intake as Hypertension and Heart Disease Rise Across the Region
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 ...
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CARPHA Launches Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week 2026: Calls for Region-Wide Action on Source Reduction
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 “...
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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...
  • CARPHA Issues its First Emergency Use Recommendation for a COVID-19 Vaccine

    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

    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...
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