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NEWS Roundup
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3 February 2024
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PAHO: World Cancer Day: Close the Care Gap
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| Image: PAHO
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PAHO: In 2024, the global cancer community commemorates World Cancer Day, on February 4, with the slogan "Close the care gap", and the call to unite our voices and take action. PAHO joins this campaign to call everyone, collectively and individually, to commit to strengthening actions aimed at improving access to quality care, including screening, early detection, treatment, and palliative care.
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| PAHO World Cancer Day: Webinar |
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| Global Cancer Burden Growing, Amidst Mounting Need for Services |
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| PAHO: WHO’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has released the latest estimates of the global burden of cancer. |
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| International Childhood Cancer Day |
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| PAHO: International Childhood Cancer Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer. |
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| World Cancer Day: Close the Care Gap |
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| World Cancer Day held every 4 February is the global uniting initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). By raising worldwide awareness, improving education and catalysing personal, collective and government action, we are all working together to reimagine a world where millions of preventable cancer deaths are saved and access to life-saving cancer treatment and care is equitable for all - no matter who you are or where you live. |
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| World Cancer Day 2024: A Global Call To Close the Care Gap |
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| NCD Alliance: The current World Cancer Day theme is 'Close the care gap', now in its third and final year. This campaign focuses on addressing issues of equity in cancer care, rallying individuals, organisations, and governments alike to address the disparities that hinder access to essential cancer services for many people, due to age, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic situation or geographical location. |
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| Celebrate,Remember, Fight Back |
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February 4th 2024
At Vigie Playing Field, Castries, Saint Lucia
Contact us at 1.758.452.1538
WhatsApp 1.758.461.1538
Email: stluciacancersociety@gmail.com |
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St. Kitts & Nevis Observer: Address by Hon. Moses Jn. Baptiste, Minister for Health, Wellnes and Elderly Affairs St. Lucia
As we observe World Cancer Day this year, we are reminded of the impacts of cancer on families throughout St Lucia. We fear cancer because more often than not, we associate cancer with prolonged suffering and death. |
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| See the Truth: Some Food Industry Actors Working Against Octagonal Warning Labels |
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There is an urgent need to protect our public health policy-making processes.
Since the start of consultations around the front-of-package labelling Regional Standard for pre-packaged food products in 2018, the ultra-processed food and beverage industry — supported by the wider private sector industry in the Caribbean — has become an overpowering actor in healthy food policy discussions.
Despite the fact that the Octagonal Warning Label has been proven to be NINE times more effective at helping consumers quickly, correctly and easily identify foods high in sugar, sodium and fats, the industry has strongly opposed it publicly and behind closed doors. They deployed a number of interference tactics (see below) which not only significantly delayed the approval process, but weakened the front-of-package labelling Standard.
Webinar registration details coming soon.
Read the campaign press release
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| Check out the campaign graphics |
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| Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control Urges Jamaican Government To Ban Disposable Vapes |
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Jamaica Observer On the heels of a decision by the British Government to ban the sale of disposable vapes by 2025 so as to tackle the rising number of children becoming addicted to nicotine, Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control (JCTC) says the Jamaican Government should muster the strength to follow suit, instead of being straitjacketed by wealthy tobacco industry interests,
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| Photo: Jamaica Observer website
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World Obesity Day is on 4 March 2024.
Organisations around the globe will be participating in a Walk for Obesity!
Show your support for urgent implementation of evidence-based efforts to address obesity by participating in this global walk! |
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| PAHO Releases Toolkit To Enhance Management of Cardiovascular Risk and Hypertension in the Americas |
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PAHO: Recently published HEARTS in the Americas: Compendium of essential clinical tools 2023, a collection of resources aimed at assisting healthcare teams in improving the management of cardiovascular risk conditions and hypertension in primary healthcare settings across the region.
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| Photo: PAHO
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| Adequate Food: The Human Right of Us All Course Presentation Webinar Recording |
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FAO: The recording of this webinar is now avaialble.
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- World Cancer Day: improve equity to close the care gap
- Neglected and in crisis: new examples from around the world...
- EB154: Latest news and discussions...
- Detailed investigation into big tobacco's lobbying in Kenya
- Ensuring ambitious and binding pandemic accord
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Open Letters and Statements
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| World Cancer Day 2018 |
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| January 31 2018 |
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| World Cancer Day is an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and is a truly global event taking place every year on 4 February, World Cancer Day unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. It aims to save millions of preventable deaths each year by raising awareness and education about the disease, pressing governments and individuals across the world to take action. Read more |
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Vaping Among Adolescents and Youth in the Caribbean: Situation, Policy Responses, and Recommended Actions
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Our Health, Our Right – A Rights-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Agenda for the Caribbean
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NCD Prevention and Control in the Caribbean – Essential Considerations for Equity-Based and Rights-Based Approaches, Policy brief.
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