Caribbean countries face multiple and complex challenges, from the severe epidemic of chronic diseases (including diabetes, heart disease, cancers and HIV) to new and emerging highly communicable diseases like Ebola, chikungunya and Zika, with devastating impact on regional economies. As far back as 2001, CARICOM Heads of Government, in the ‘Nassau Declaration on Health’ unanimously
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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 had requested continuation of the regional effort aimed at building and sustaining the highest quality medical laboratory services through an independent self-sustaining mechanism. This request
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