2016 was an exciting year for HCC, it's members, it's partners and for everyone involved in the fight against NCDs.
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Thank you for you support in 2016 and lets continue our great work together in 2017.
January 1st - January 14th 2016 Featured: The WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (WHO GCM/NCD) Featuring the Belize Cancer Society and the Jamaica Cancer Society; HCC Congratulates the IAHF on their 20th Anniversary January 15th - January 21st 2016 Featured: National NCD Commissioners in Barbados Receive Instruments of Appointment for Another 2 Years January 22nd - January 28th 2016 Featured: The TT NCD Alliance Hosts the HCC January 29th - February 4th 2016 Featured: Climate Change, NCDs & SIDS plus HCC Request for Proposals for Small Grants for Civil Society to contribute to Health Systems Strengthening
February 5th - February 11th 2016 Featured: WHO Global Meeting of National NCD Programme Directors and Managers 15th-17th February 2016 February 12th - February 18th 2016 Featured: WHO/NCD Focal Points Looking Ahead to 2018; Uniting to Stop the NCD Epidemic – Time to Accelerate Action – Regional Workshop – You Can Participate February 19th - February 25th 2016 Featured: Caribbean Cooperation in Health (CCH III); Civil Society Engaged in POSDEVAL Process February 26th - March 3rd 2016 Featured: One Step Closer to a Regional Social Marketing Salt Reduction Campaign; HCC Welcomes New Trade Policy Advisor, Vincent Atkins
March 4th - March 10th 2016 Featured: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention through Population-wide Dietary Salt/Sodium Reduction; Call for Caribbean CSOs to endorse the PAHO/WHO Policy Statement March 11th - March 17th 2016 Featured: HCC Call to Action on SSB Taxation in the Caribbean; UK Chancellor George Osborne Announces Sugar Tax on Soft Drinks Industry March 18th - March 24th 2016 Featured: Greater Policy Coherence across Trade and Health Ministries needed in CARICOM; HCC Supports Australia in PP Dispute March 25th - March 31st 2016 Featured: HCC Webinar: Thursday 7th April 11am – NCDs and Trade Policies: Challenges, Opportunities and Civil Society Advocacy in the Caribbean
April 1st - April 7th 2016 Featured: HCC Webinar: NCDs and Trade Policies: Challenges, Opportunities and Civil Society Advocacy in the Caribbean slides and recording now available April 8th - April 14th 2016 Featured: World Hypertension Day is Fast Approaching April 15th - April 21st 2016 Featured: HCC Brings Together Regional Civil Society Organisations to Develop 2017-2021 Strategic Plan April 22nd - April 28th 2016 Featured: WCRF International Stomach Cancer Report Launched April 29th - May 5th 2016 – Featured: HCC Announces 3rd Grant for the Caribbean Civil Society Cervical Cancer Prevention Initiative (C4PI)
May 6th - May 12th 2016 Featured: HCC will be at Women Deliver Conference 16-19 May; PAHO Brings Partners Together to Combat Women’s Cancers in the English Caribbean May 13th - May 26th 2016 69th World health Assembly: NCDs One of the Three Slow Motion Disasters Facing the World; Women Deliver 2016: Placing NCDs at the Centre of the Women and Girls Health and Development Agenda; World Hypertension Day Across the Region: March and Rally on Tuesday, May 17th, 2016; Smart Food Choices, Healthy Eating Workshop; Barbados Scenic ‘Know Your Numbers’ Bus Crawl;
June 3rd - June 9th 2016 Featured: Antigua Minister of Health Honourable Molwyn Joseph – A Caribbean NCD Champion: ‘Walking the Talk’; Jamaica Well Represented at The World Congress of Cardiology; Regional Tobacco Control Meeting in Mexico City June 10th - June 16th 2016 Featured: 61st Annual CARPHA Health Research Conference This Week Thursday 23rd – Saturday 25th June June 17th - June 23rd 2016 Featured: CARPHA Creating a Platform for Action: Stakeholder Dialogue Improving the Healthiness of Food Environments in the Caribbean; CARPHA Evidence Brief; HCC Commends and Fully Supports Powerful Stance Taken Against Fast Food June 24th - June 30th 2016 Featured: HCC Awards Small Grants to Strengthen Health Systems Through Civil Society Action
July 1st - July 7th 2016 Featured: Make PE Mandatory in High Schools; The SPARC Metastatic Breast Cancer Challenge Award Haiti with Innovating Health International July 8th - July 14th 2016 Featured: Trinidad & Tobago Medical Association 22nd Annual Medical Research Conference July 15th - July 21st 2016 Featured: PAHO Supporting Regional Governments to Strengthen Fiscal and Regulatory Capacity in the Fight Against Obesity July 22nd - July 28th 2016 Featured: HCC Launches New Brief: The Implementation of Taxation on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages by the Government of Barbados July 29th - August 4th 2016 Featured: Trinidad and Tobago: Civil Society Rises to the NCD Challenge
August 5th - August 11th 2016 Featured: HCC and COMSEC National NCD Commission Consultation in Antigua August 12th - August 26th 2016 Featured: ‘Don’t Be Salty!’ New National Social Marketing Campaign Challenging Children and Adults to Reduce Salt in their Diets; Bequia Salt Reduction Workshop
October 7th - October 13th 2016 Featured: GRD NNCDC Strengthening Mission October 2016 October 14th - October 20th 2016 Featured: Global Dialogue Meeting on the Role of Non-State Actors in Supporting Member States in their National Efforts to Tackle Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) as Part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development October 21st - October 27th 2016 Featured: Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Country Infographics; CARPHA Executive Director ‘Walking the Talk’ Exercising at Work with a Treadmill Desk October 28th - November 3rd 2016 Featured: HCC Tobacco Control Advisor at COP7 in India; Highlights from WCC 2016; World Cancer Declaration Progress Report 2016; Civil Society’s Role in Efforts to Control Women’s Cancers
November 4th - November 10th 2016 Featured: World Diabetes Day 2016; GET UP, STAND UP… HCC NCD Youth Champion Kystal Boyea Writes About Living with Diabetes as World Diabetes Day Approaches; The Private Sector Stands up for Our Children – Sagicor Life Makes a Powerful Statement Against Marketing and Promotion of Junk Food in Schools Friday November 18 2016 HCC Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day: Statement from the Directors of HCC; HCC Call to Action to develop and implement national polices to reduce the harmful use of alcohol; Statements of Support from Our Partners; Global/Regional Alcohol Related Targets (SDGs/ GAP); Resources; HCC Webinar November 18th - November 24th 2016 Featured: HCC Open Letter To Hon. Freundel Stuart Prime Minister of Barbados, Congratulations on ‘Standing Up” to the Beverage Industry November 25th - December 1st 2016 Featured: SickKids-Caribbean Initiative Enhancing Capacity for Care in Paediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders; UHC Day 12.12.16 – Act with Ambition; Toward Universal Health Coverage and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean Evidence from Selected Countries
December 2nd - December 8th 2016 Featured: Where are the Caribbean Graphic Health Warnings?; The Changing Tobacco Control Environment in Jamaica December 9th - December 15th 2016 Featured: The HCC is Proud to Launch this Seminal Report on Tobacco Control Advocacy in the Caribbean
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The HCC is a regional network of Caribbean health NGOs and civil society organizations with the remit to combat chronic diseases (NCDs) and their associated risk factors and conditions. Our membership presently consists of more than 50 Caribbean-based health NGOs and over 55 not-for-profit organisations and, in excess of 200 individual members based in the Caribbean and across the globe.
