News Roundup
International Women's Day 2013 - Join the Healthy Caribbean Coalition and other organizations all over the world in celebrating International Women's day this Friday March 8th, 2013. This year the HCC is demonstrating its commitment to women by embarking upon a Cervical Cancer Advocacy Campaign for Caribbean Civil Society in order to bring greater awareness and action around this disease which is the second leading cause of death among Caribbean women.
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PAHO eHealth Newsletter - President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition talks about the "Get the Message" mHealth campaign plus New Mobile Phone-based Cholera Surveillance and Control System in Haiti, PAHO Develops eHealth Publication for Decision Makers, Educational Virtual Clinic Seeks to Strengthen Clinical Competencies in Indigenous and Remote Area
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Anti-tobacco lobby & smoking cessation initiatives in the Caribbean - Dr. Victor Coombs - There are more than one billion smokers in the world, Tobacco use kills 5.4 million people a year - an average of one person every six seconds, Smoking tobacco is second only to hypertension as a cause of world wide mortality, More than 80% of the world's smokers live in low - and middle-income countries and almost half of the worlds children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke (PDF file 2.7MB)
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Pass tobacco control laws now - Jamaica Gleaner, Sunday March 3, 2013 Professor Everard Barton, chief of nephrology at the University Hospital of the West Indies, and chairman of Caribbean Institute of Nephrology, has called on the Government to make haste in passing tobacco-control legislation. Barton, speaking during a recent Gleaner Editors' Forum at the company's North Street offices, said the implementation of a Tobacco Control Act would go a far way in reducing kidney-related illness
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Honour Everett Koop's memory - Friday, March 1, 2013 - The world has lost a sterling man in former United States Surgeon General C Everett Koop, a paediatric surgeon known for his anti-smoking campaigns. C Everett Koop was not afraid to take on the big tobacco companies. He won!
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