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 I was heartened when I read that the first Caribbean summit on HIV/AIDS was convened in St Croix. Given that this virus has been ravaging our people like a Biblical plague for years now, I could not help thinking that this summit was long overdue. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: Ministers of Health from across the Caribbean and the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean will converge on the US Virgin Islands from January 20 through January 22 to discuss the economic impact of HIV/AIDS on the Caribbean. read more.. |
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, :  Christmas and New Year are festive times around the Caribbean. Here are some tips that will allow us to celebrate and enjoy the festivities, while at the same time keeping ourselves and others healthy. read more.. |
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| , : The Ministry of Health in Jamaica is again allaying fears that the current malaria outbreak will affect the staging of next year's ICC Cricket World Cup in Jamaica. The country will host six group stage matches and a semi-final at Sabina Park. read more.. |
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, :  Jamaican Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has made an appeal to all persons who are experiencing symptoms of malaria, as well as those who have been tested for the disease to visit their nearest health facility or face the consequences of being named publicly. read more.. |
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| , : A senior officer in the Jamaican Ministry of Health said the Jamaican leg of the ICC World Cup Cricket would not be affected by the malaria outbreak in the Caribbean island. read more.. |
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, :  With some 61 confirmed cases of malaria in Jamaica, mostly confined to four communities in the corporate area, Minister of Health, Horace Dalley, has assured that the outbreak was under control and that there was no national health crisis. read more.. |
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| , : A Canadian tropical disease expert in Toronto says there should be more publicity about Jamaica's malaria outbreak at the beginning of the winter travel season. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The recent outbreak of malaria in Jamaica has reminded people that malaria, though largely a preventable disease, continues to claim a million lives a year in Africa alone, including nearly 3,000 children every day. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters): Jamaican health authorities are battling an outbreak of malaria that has infected 15 people in the Kingston area but has so far not spread to other parts of the Caribbean island. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  As the Caribbean joins the international community in observing World AIDS Day, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister and Chairman of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS, Dr Denzil Douglas said the disease has deep and social implications for the region. read more.. |
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| The language of the politicians surrounding the debate over the country's hostile takeover of the health care industry is less than inspiring. read more.. |
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| , : Have you checked your weight lately? The Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute (CFNI) has reminded us that overweight and obesity are major risk factors for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. read more.. |
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| , : Executive Director in the Office of the Deputy Secretary General of CARICOM, Jacqueline Josephs, has said that the region’s healthcare system would be greatly advanced through the region’s co-operation with Spain. read more.. |
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| , : Minister of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA), Hensley Daniel, has called on various groups in Nevis to pool together to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS as the need for partnerships was critical in the fight against the disease. read more.. |
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, :  Stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is a major problem, says Dr Sarah Gordon, deputy programme manager at PANCAP, the Pan Caribbean Partnership to combat HIV and AIDS. read more.. |
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, :  A two day conference, the second annual "Cultural Diversity and Health Disparities in the Virgin Islands: Challenges for the Health Care System," was held in Charlotte Amalie. While attendance was comprised of mostly islanders, a few stateside medical providers were also present. read more.. |
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| , : Breast cancer is on the rise in Britain and other European countries, and this should make us take notice in the Caribbean, since we may not be far behind. British newspaper, The Independent, reports a sharp increase in Britain. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A campaign to limit wanton sex practices, most common during festive seasons, will take place during the World Creole Music Festival in Dominica; to protect both locals and visitors from transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands Dr Orlando Smith says the BVI is not unique in its steps towards imposing a ban on smoking in public places in the territory. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Infection control measures are being increased at the Tobago Scarborough Hospital, in order to ensure the vigilance of staff and the infection control team. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Dr. Carol Jacobs, Chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, says the tourism sector is of critical importance in the fight against HIV/AIDS. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro isn't the only one ailing in Cuba, where authorities are on the charge, spraying from aircraft and military trucks in a war on a great big, tiny enemy: the mosquito that spreads dengue. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS):: The Jamaican Ministry of Health has launched an HIV anti-stigma campaign, which is aimed at reducing the discrimination that is associated with the disease. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): The government of Jamaica will be expending millions of dollars this fiscal year to refurbish hospitals, health centres, laboratories and training institutions. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): On its one-year anniversary, the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme has successfully facilitated corrective eye surgeries for more than 3,000 needy Jamaicans. read more.. |
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| , : I am not a scientist and I do not play one on the Internet. But I have tremendous respect for scientists and praise their efforts to fight diseases and alleviate human suffering. Therefore, whenever lay-people proffer sentimental customs read more.. |
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| ROME, Italy (AFP): The United Nations food and agriculture agency said Wednesday it had produced a booklet preparing small-scale poultry producers in the Caribbean and Latin America for the possible arrival of bird flu. read more.. |
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| The Nassau Institute Health Insurance Report has been circulated to the public. Some individuals and groups are wondering how they, and the Bahamian economy will be affected. read more.. |
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| On January 31, 2004 the Blue Ribbon Commission on National Health Insurance (the “BRC”) delivered its proposed plan to the Prime Minister. The initial implementation of this plan may begin shortly. read more.. |
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, :  The Caribbean has not been spared the ravages of HIV/AIDS which has had a devastating impact on women in the region. The World Health Organization's 2005 update found the Caribbean with the second highest HIV prevalence in the world. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): With the help of a Russian-built biplane, Cuba has stepped up measures to check the spread of dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus that causes a fever that can be deadly. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has outlined his vision for the health sector in Dominica. The Prime Minister was at the time addressing a Town Hall Meeting in the village of Paix Bouche on Sunday evening. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said that Dominica has the most ambitious training programme for nurses in the Caribbean. Skerrit made that disclosure on Sunday, when he compared the shortage of nurses that existed a few years ago to action now being taken. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has made a plea for the PAN Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS to collaborate in ensuring that all People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWA) have access to Anti-retroviral drugs by the year 2010. read more.. |
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| , : HIV and AIDS are quickly becoming an epidemic in the Caribbean and women are the primary targets. In 2005, about 27,000 people contracted AIDS in the Caribbean, making it the leading cause of death among adults between 15 and 44. read more.. |
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| , : St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas is in Toronto, Canada, to attend the 16th International HIV/AIDS Conference. read more.. |
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| TORONTO, Canada (AFP): New efforts show AIDS and HIV treatments can succeed in war zones, where people fear bombs and bullets more than a distant death from disease, non-governmental groups said Saturday. read more.. |
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| TORONTO, Canada (AFP): Mexico will become the first country in Latin America to host the 2008 International AIDS conference, thereby shining a spotlight on the toll the disease has had in the Caribbean and Latin America. read more.. |
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| , : Last year, I wrote an article extolling the findings of scientific studies that established a positive link between male circumcision (briss) and substantial reduction in the incidence of HIV infections. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Reuters): Social stimulation and organised play sessions in early childhood can have long-term benefits for the emotional development of children with stunted growth, University of the West Indies researchers said. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Caribbean Heads of Government have received a report on the macro-economic implications of non-communicable diseases, which showed that the number of deaths resulting from diabetes, hypertension and heart disease were ten times higher than the number resulting from HIV/AIDS. read more.. |
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| ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Dialysis treatment could be available in Grenada in the very near future. The treatment will be provided by a private company, Island Health Services (IHS), which is in the process of organizing its clinic at Belmont St George’s. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): In what scientists billed as a breakthrough, Cuba has developed the first monoclonal antibody from transgenic plants -- dubbed a "plantibody" -- used in making a human vaccine. read more.. |
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| NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters): Health officials in the Bahamas are screening illegal immigrants for malaria after an outbreak of the potentially fatal disease was confirmed on a sandy chain of islands southeast of Nassau. read more.. |
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| ST THOMAS, USVI: The Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Institute in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, is now treating cancer patients with radiation, providing welcome news to the region’s cancer sufferers. read more.. |
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| UNITED NATIONS, New York: Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and Chair of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, Dr Denzil Douglas, has committed the Caribbean to the goal of universal access to prevention, care, treatment and support by 2010. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: The world has been told that there is a great deal of concern in the Caribbean region over the overall expansion and feminisation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: HIV infection levels have remained stable in Barbados, but the number of AIDS deaths in the country appears to be on the decline, according to the UNAIDS 2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Caribbean countries on Wednesday called for a revision of the eligibility criteria by the Global AIDS Fund, which places undue emphasis on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) without recognising vulnerability issues. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Approximately 50 representatives of the CARICOM-coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) will attend the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS on May 31 to June 2. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA:  The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) brought together private and public sector decision makers in Washington, DC, to address public health concerns in the Hemisphere. Ambassador John Lange served as key speaker for the event. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Human Rights and HIV/AIDS advocates from across the Caribbean will meet in Kingston, Jamaica on 25 to 26 May 2006 at a workshop to develop strategies for rights-based responses to HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean. read more.. |
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ST JOHN, USVI:  On June 8, 2006 Caribbean-Americans, Caribbean immigrants and community organizations on the mainland, including the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, will hold a day long event to highlight the health disparities facing people of colour. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Permanent Secretary in the St Kitts-Nevis Ministry of Health, Elvis Newton, has said that his ministry is revising the major medical health laws. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Persons living with HIV/AIDS in member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will soon benefit from the supply of anti-retroviral drugs being provided by Brazil over the next five years. read more.. |
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| ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Caribbean Red Cross HIV/AIDS Network and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is currently meeting in Panama to begin development of a four year strategic plan for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. read more.. |
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| , : Growing up in the Caribbean has health benefits that may last a lifetime. According to a study I recently conducted and published, Caribbean immigrants living in the United States exercise more often than American-born people of colour. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: The piloting of the PANCAP/CARICOM Mini-Grant Programme has proceeded well enough to allow its expansion into five additional territories. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The UN, the European Union and Canada have joined forces to raise awareness about AIDS in Haiti, the Caribbean country hardest hit by the pandemic, by funding a film titled "Does The Band Leader Have AIDS?" read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Health officials in St Vincent and the Grenadines say they are working with the Ministry of Agriculture and regional and international health organisations to implement standardised international plans aimed at arresting the deadly H5N1 bird flu if it reach these shores. read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will discuss on Friday the many different scientific and economic aspects of Avian Influenza and the potential impacts in the Americas. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: The bottom-line of businesses will be affected if HIV/AIDS related stigma and issues in the workplace are not addressed immediately. read more.. |
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, :  I had the opportunity to speak with an individual with a particular mental disorder. He was very withdrawn and had a sense of hopelessness which could only be described as a loss of the ambition to self-actualize and get on with his life. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Bahamian authorities said Friday they were unable to determine with certainty what caused a spate of bird deaths, but have dismissed fears the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had reached the Americas. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Bahamian authorities played down a spate of bird deaths, as experts Thursday headed back from a southern island after collecting samples to determine if the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had reached the Americas. read more.. |
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| NASSAU, Bahamas (AFP): Experts Wednesday probed the unusual deaths of 14 birds in the southern Bahamas amid fears the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus strain had reached the Americas. read more.. |
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ARLINGTON, USA:  Beginning Tuesday, on Valentine's Day, through March 15, HERO International will launch Operation “Heart-to-Heart,” a promotion to fund life-saving operations for Guyanese children with heart defects. HERO International was founded by R. Allen Stanford, chairman of Stanford Private Wealth Management. read more.. |
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, :  It does not arrive with suitcases full of dreams of new economic opportunities and a greater peace of mind. Once it comes it can put down roots in any Caribbean territory. It alters lifestyles, habits, dietary customs, etc. It is an equal opportunity killer and /or disabler. read more.. |
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