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Do you want to know how we’re doing as a region in the challenge to NCDs? What’s going well? Where could we improve? How exactly do we speed up action? These ‘evidence briefs’, emerging from the Port of Spain Declaration evaluation answer these questions. The document takes each of the six research objectives of the […]
People with type 2 diabetes can come off medication and maintain non-diabetic blood sugar levels through diet and exercise, according to the landmark Barbados Diabetes Reversal Study. This ground-breaking finding means that it is possible for many to put their diabetes into remission. In order to achieve these results, diabetics need to lose a substantial […]
Most people know that consuming a lot of salt is bad for our health. Yet most of us still eat far too much of it, around twice the recommended daily amount. So how do those in the business of social marketing square this circle and get people to cut down on salt, turning awareness into […]
During the recent ‘Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action’ Implementation Workshop in Trinidad and Tobago some of the speakers and attendees were asked to give their thoughts on the workshop and their views on NCDs and the way forward. To select a specific video click on the […]
Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action
Uniting to Stop the Epidemic of NCDs – Time to Accelerate Action Action Plan for NCDs emerges from Implementation Workshop The regional response to the grave threat posed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) must be intensified immediately if the health, wellbeing and development gains of Caribbean people are to be protected. This was the key message […]
Uniting to Stop the NCD Epidemic – Time to Accelerate Action A “golden opportunity”: Major regional workshop to tackle NCDs starts this week Some 60 leaders, experts and activists in the Caribbean NCD response will meet in Port of Spain on February 24 and 25 to get to grips with the epidemic of diseases, such […]
My name is Tracie-Ann Jessamy and I am 44 years old. In 2014 I had a stroke. Many people believe that it’s only older people who this happens to, but this is not the case. When people look at me they don’t really see someone who has had a stroke. They tell me I look […]
Dr Patrick Martin, the Chief Medical Officer in St Kitts and Nevis, talks frankly about what really needs to be done to tackle the NCD “tsunami”. “There is no doubt in my mind that our people know there is an NCD problem …. However, knowing and doing are two different things. And that’s where we […]