Meet Dr. Farley R. Cleghorn - MD, MPH
Dr Farley Cleghorn says: The only way to end the pandemic and to return to some semblance of normalcy is by vaccination. ANSA McAl has embarked on a regional public...
Video Series on HIV Self-testing
PART 1 – “It’s time for a policy on HIV self-testing” As we continue to navigate COVID-19, it is important to note that HIV self-testing offers an easy and reliable way...
Your Health - Our Passion - Quality Matters
In these challenging times, CMLF is seizing the opportunity to remind our valued partners and stakeholders of how important it is to keep our focus on quality and access to...
A call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV self-testing
PRESS RELEASE As COVID-19 reduces access to HIV testing services, AIDS response partners call for Caribbean countries to adopt HIV self-testing KINGSTON, 1 December 2020—On the occasion of World AIDS...
COVID causes reduction in HIV/AIDS testing
A 69 per cent reduction in facility and community-based HIV testing services due to COVID-19 is putting people with undiagnosed HIV at risk of not getting lifesaving antiretroviral treatment potentially...
HIV/Syphilis Rapid Testing Portal
As we celebrate World AIDS Day in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, CMLF launches its new website and invites you to visit our HIV and Syphilis Rapid Testing...
OECS Convenes Inaugural Tenders and Technical Advisory Committee Meeting
Friday, March 17, 2023 — The OECS Pooled Procurement Service (PPS) convened its 1st Meeting of the Tenders and Technical Advisory Committee in Saint Lucia on March 7 – 8, 2023. ...
PAHO, local groups to offer 35,000 free covid tests
After weeks of Carnival parties and two days of playing mas in large crowds without wearing masks or following any covid19 protocols, the number of covid19 cases in TT is...
CMLF and partners co-ordinate free COVID-19 testing post Carnival
Members of the Catholic Community joined efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 by making rapid COVID-19 antigen testing FREE & available to the public on Ash Wednesday at the...
U.S. investigating first cases of "concerning" new drug-resistant gonorrhea strain
Health authorities in Massachusetts announced Thursday they have identified two cases of a new strain of gonorrhea that appears to have developed resistance to a broad swath of antibiotic treatments....
Why maggots are a medical marvel
What do Genghis Khan, the American Civil War and the UK’s health service have in common? The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, maggots. Dr Erica McAlister, an entomologist and Senior Curator...
Parliament passes law to regulate medical labs
Parliament has passed a law regulating the operations of medical laboratories in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, giving current laboratories nine months in which to obtain a licence or cease...
Our Vision, Mission and Objectives
CMLF Vision The regional champion for best practice in Medical Laboratory Services. CMLF Mission Promote and support the achievement of quality laboratory services in accordance with appropriate standards, through advocacy,...
About CMLF
The Caribbean Med Labs Foundation, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is a non-governmental organisation established in response to a request from CARICOM Ministers of Health in June 2007. The Ministers...
