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CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding
March 26, 2024 by timothy-austin in Caribbean Public Health Agency‚ Press Release‚ Public Health

CARPHA Progresses to Eligibility for the First Disbursement of Pandemic Funding

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 22 March, 2024.  Following a landmark Public Signing Ceremony for the Pandemic Fund (PF) Technical Cooperation Agreement (“Reducing the Public Health Impact of Pandemics in the Caribbean through Prevention, Preparedness, and Response” [RG-T4387] Project) on December 14, 2023, in Trinidad, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) continues to […]

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Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis
March 26, 2024 by timothy-austin in Caribbean Public Health Agency‚ Crime and Violence‚ Press Release‚ Public Health

Violence in the Caribbean: a Public Health Crisis

Castries, Saint Lucia, 21 March 2024. Violence is rightly examined as a public health issue, because it affects physical, mental, and psychosocial health, it affects the individual families, andcommunities. Violence plagues the Region and represents a huge burden on health systems and has major economic costs to society as a whole. “It is for this […]

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