October 23 - October 29 2013

HCC Feature

HCC applauds the “coming together” of health NGOs

The HCC strongly supports the recent initiatives by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados and the Barbados Diabetes Foundation to seek areas where they can work together to tackle the NCDs.

The members of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados and the Barbados Diabetes Foundation met recently and discussed ways of working together in tackling NCD’s. 30% of the Heart & Stroke Foundation patients attending the clinic are diabetic.

They also discussed Ways to improve their care and support, one of the suggestions was organizing diabetic education monthly to be facilitated by the Diabetes Foundation.

A tour was made of the recently refurbished and enhanced preventative and rehabilitative care unit and also the well stocked Maria Holder Memorial Trust Resource Centre, generously funded by “The Maria Holder Memorial Trust”.

Both parties welcomed the idea of creating a common library catalogue system for the Resource Centre and that the socio-economic sensitivity must underpin their health and wellness promotion activities and that innovation was needed in our approaches.

Caribbean Cervical Cancer e-petition website re-launch

The Caribbean Cervical Cancer e-petition page has been re-launched, you can now do more than just sign the petition you can:

• See images of some of the persons who are supporting the e-petition.
• See the total number of signatures to date and a breakdown of signatures by country.
• View the End Cervical Cancer PSA.

Please visit www.endcervicalcancernow.org and sign the petition if you haven't already. Share this link with colleagues and friends.

Please share this link with your colleagues and friends. www.endcervicalcancernow.org

Help us reach our target of 50,000 signatures!

Thank You

News Roundup

President of the Caribbean Development Bank signs Caribbean Cervical Cancer e-petition

Dr. W. Warren Smith, President of the Caribbean Development Bank added his signature to the Caribbean Cervical Cancer e-petition at the recent Globe-athon event in Barbados. Visit the www.endcervicalcancernow.org to see how the petition is progressing or sign the e-petition now here

Team up to fight against cancer - Dominica - Over the past weeks the Castle Bruce Health District in collaboration with the Castle Bruce Co-operative Credit Union Limited has been doing their share in the fight against cancer. In observance of Breast Cancer month and Co-operative month, the tagged team participated in the “walk for cancer care” an initiative organised by the Dominica Cancer Society and then held two large cancer screening clinic days. Read more

Positive Foundation facilitates pupils’ early awareness about breast cancer - ST. PETERS, St. Maarten (October 29, 2013) – Fifth and sixth graders of nine primary schools received their first information about breast health and breast cancer thanks to an annual programme during the month of October carried out by Positive Foundation in collaboration with St. Maarten Nurses Association. Read more

Thursday final day for free breast cancer screening in St. Maarten - PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (October 29, 2013) – Positive Foundation reminds all women who are yet to take advantage of the free Breast Cancer screening that the final day for screening is Thursday, October 31, at Dr. H. Deketh’s Office in Maho from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Free screenings are also available at Dr. Dennaoui Medical Clinic on October 30 from 4pm – 5pm and Union Road Clinic from 9am - 5pm. Read more

The Barbados Association of Palliative Care 3rd Annual Conference - “Children in Grief: The Breadwinner has Died” Wednesday, December 4, 2013: 8:30 a.m - 4 p.m. Amaryllis Beach Resort, Hastings, Christ Church. Read more

Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close - Please take look at our BCAM page to see snapshot of the regional events that took place during October.

NCD Alliance E-Alert - WHO Consultation on Engagement of Non-State Actors-WHO Reform - On October 17-18th, WHO held an informal consultation on its engagement with non-state actors as part of its overall reform process. Launch of UNDP Discussion Paper on social determinants of NCDs - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has recently published a Discussion Paper “Addressing the Social Determinant of NCDs”. Report of the first meeting of the UN Interagency Task Force on NCDs - The first meeting of the formalised United Nations Interagency Taskforce on the Prevention and Control of NCDs was convened by WHO and held at ILO in Geneva on 2-3 October 2013. Read more

HCC News Roundup Archive - If you have missed any of our News Roundups you can view previous Roundups on our News Roundup Archive webpage here

HCC Featured - Previously featured Members, events and news can now be found on our HCC Featured webpage here

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