Our health desk tracks public health issues and policies in the Caribbean and worldwide. Cooperating with Ministries of Health, regional health agencies and international development partners, we also detail disease outbreaks, global health priorities and new investments in health. The health desk also features strategies on how to live a better, healthier life.
With Zika being declared a Public Health Emergency by the WHO, CARPHA stresses the need for a coordinated Caribbean response to the disease to protect the Caribbean’s social and economic interests
As cases of Zika infection continue to rise in the Caribbean, Caribbean residents have become increasingly concerned about taking preventative action against becoming infected.
The public health crisis may have extended even further
More than five years after the devastating earthquake of 12 January, 2010, at least 60,000 people are still living in camps, and programmes to help them move out are coming to an end.
A regional LGBT lobby has criticized a Jamaican evangelical group’s petition against LGBT equality in the Caribbean, following a US Supreme Court decision on marriage equality
There is word that a “new” sexually transmitted infection (STI) has popped up in Jamaica: Mycoplasma genitalium. What is it exactly, and is there cause for worry?
