January 6th - January 12th
Featured: The HCC is Proud to Launch this Seminal Report on Tobacco Control Advocacy in the Caribbean; Current Controls on Alcohol Marketing Are Not Protecting Youth, Warn Public Health Experts. News: Soft Drinks Too Sweet; HCC Director Appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives in Belize. Read more

January 13th - January 19th
Featured: ‘Taxation of Sugar Sweetened Beverages - Does it Improve Health?’  News: When Our Own Weakness for Sweetness Could Kill Us; Advancing the Right to Health: the Vital Role of Law. Read more

January 20th - January 26th
Featured: World Cancer Day 4th February 2017. News: T&T Ministry to Ban Sugar Drinks at Schools; Civil Society Led Tobacco Control  Advocacy in the Caribbean. Read more

January 27th - February 2nd
Featured: The HCC Caribbean Cancer Alliance Celebrates World Cancer Day 2017 with the Launch of Our Caribbean Cancer Advocacy Agenda News: Sagicor - The Greatest Wealth is Health. Read more

February 3rd - February 9th
Featured: Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean - The Time to Act is Now News: Campaign to Ban Sweet Drinks in Schools; FCTC 2030 - Strengthening WHO FCTC implementation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more

February 10th - February 19th
Featured: Civil Society, Government and the Private Sector Come Together to Discuss Advocacy, Accountability and Conflict of Interest in the Caribbean; HCC Strategic Plan 2017-2021 Officially Launched News: New Trial to Target Preventable Deaths in the Caribbean; Challenge to Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean gets a High-level Boost. Read more

February 20th – February 24th
Featured: HCC Strategic Plan 2017-2021 Officially Launched; A Spoonful of Sugar - The “Not So Sweet” Truth About Barbados’ Breakfast Cereals News: NCD Advocacy, Accountability, and Conflict of Interest Meeting; The Regional Response to Childhood Obesity. Read more

February 25th - March 3rd
Featured: Putting NCDs on the agenda in workplaces - The Barbados National NCD Commission working with the Barbados Workers Union to develop a National Workplace Wellness Policy News: HCC Welcomes New Member - Virgin Islands Alzheimer’s Association (VIAA); Read more

March 4th - March 10th
Featured: World Kidney Day - Kidney Disease and Obesity News: 62nd CARPHA Annual Health Research Conference; WHO - Environmental Pollution Kills 1.7 Million Children Each Year; The Diabetes Association of Jamaica; Sugary Drinks Levy Will Earn Schools £415m. Read more

March 11th - March 17th
Featured: World Salt Awareness Week - March 20th-26th; CASH Warns of Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths From Salt - And Urges Public Health England to Take Immediate Action; Sodium Adds Up News: The Jamaica Coalition For Tobacco Control (JCTC) Applauds the Government of Jamaica on it’s Commitment to Increase Tobacco Taxes. Read more

March 18th - March 24th
Featured: The First National NCD Alliance in the Region Launched in Trinidad & Tobago; Tackling Unhealthy Food Environments in Barbados News: HCC Policy Advisor Nicole Foster Discusses Philip Morris v Uruguay Case Note; Sodium Adds Up. Read more

March 25th - March 31st
Featured: Getting National NCD Commissions Up and Running in the Caribbean News: World Health Day April 7th 2017 HCC Infographic; WHO World Health Day - Lets Talk Depression; World Day for Physical Activity April 6th 2017. Read more

April 1st - April 7th
Featured: World Health Day - Lets Talk Depression; Getting National NCD Commissions Up and Running in the Caribbean; The Commonwealth Health Hub News: WHO to Support Jamaica Health Ministry With Enforcing Tobacco Control Regulations; Barbados Government Counts the Cost of NCDs. Read more

April 8th - April 14th
Featured: HCC Signs MOU to Advance Workplace Wellness Programmes in the Caribbean News: Trans Fat Ban Saved Lives in New York, Study Shows; Lions Club Celebrates World Health Day; Most Deaths in Caribbean Due to Non-communicable Diseases. Read more

April 15th - April 21st
Featured: HCC Signs MOU With University of the West Indies Open Campus; HCC Civil Society Action Plan 2017-2021: Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean News Sir Trevor Hassell Calls for an Increase in ‘Sweet Tax’; Stroke and Dementia Risk Linked to Artificial Sweeteners, Study Suggests. Read more

April 22nd - April 28th
Featured: HCC Pays Courtesy Visit to Jamaica Minister of Health; Bermuda, Pioneers in the Caribbean with Policy Banning SSBs in Schools News: Healthy Workplaces - Healthy Spaces - Healthy Workers. Read more

April 29th - May 5th
Featured: Healthy me…Healthy you…Healthy T&T, Trinidad & Tobago Launches National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs; PSI Caribbean CORE Youth Movement Program News: Junk Food Publicity Directed to Children is Illegal, Says Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court. Read more

May 6th - May 12th
Featured: Caribbean Strongly Represented at the Highest Levels in the the Global NCD Civil Society Movement; British High Commissioner and WHO Director General Candidate, Pay Courtesy Visit HCC News: Ireland First Country to Restrict Unhealthy Food Sponsorship Aimed at Children; Local School in Barbados Kicks Off Their 30 Day Junk Food Challenge. Read more

May 13th - May 23rd
Featured: Dr. Margaret Chan Bids Farewell and Signals Member States that Progress is Not Possible Without Civil Society; Images From the 70th World Health Assembly; Commonwealth Civil Society Forum 2017 Policy Dialogue; Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting News: 3 Day Workshop on Alcohol, Tobacco and Sugar-Sweetened Beverages; World Hypertension Day May 17th. Read more

May 24th - May 26th
Featured: CARICOM at WHA; Updates From the WHA from NCD Alliance; World Heart Federation President, David Wood Shares WHA Insights; NCD Child WHA70 News: The Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN); Jamaica Moves’ Presented to Commonwealth Health Ministers. Read more

May 27th - June 2nd
Featured: Building Synergies for Implementation of the Global Strategy (GS) for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in the Caribbean News: NCDs Front & Centre at WHA; Pushing the NCD Agenda Globally, Regionally and Nationally; NCD and CVD-Related News from the 70th World Health Assembly. Read more

June 3rd - June 9th
Featured: Tobacco Control: A Regional Priority; Government of Guyana to Ban Public Smoking News: 5th Latin American and Caribbean Conference Tobacco or Health; 2018 UNHLM CARICOM Minister of Health Calls on UN to Walk the Talk; NCD Alliance Annual Report. Read more

June 10th - June
Featured: Second Meeting of the WHO GCM/NCD Working Group on Health Literacy for NCDs; Caribbean Well Represented at the 5th Latin American and Caribbean Conference Tobacco or Health Conference News: Government of St. Kitts & Nevis Government Considering Increased Tax on Unhealthy Foods. Read more 

June 17th - June 23rd
Featured: The HCC Secures 4th Straight Year of DAP Funding; Successes From the 3rd DAP Grant in Belize, Guyana and Haiti News: Caribbean Heads to Recognise 10th Anniversary of Port of Spain Declaration; Jamaica Receives Award for Remarkable Achievements in Tobacco Control. Read more

June 24th - June 30th
Featured: HCC Open Letter to CARICOM Heads of Government; Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Port of Spain Declaration News: 38th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government; NCD Alliance 2017 UN High-level Political Forum Advocacy Briefing. Read more

July 1st - July 7th
Featured: Heads Called to Urgent Action around Tobacco control and Childhood Obesity; Soundbites from the CARICOM Heads of Government Closing Press Conference; Mike Bloomberg Announces Support to Fight Obesity in the Caribbean; CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting Press Coverage; Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Port of Spain Declaration News: NCD Alliance Our Views, Our Voices. Read more

July 8th - July 21st
Featured: CARICOM Leaders Fall Short of 2007 Predecessors; HCC Joins Forces with Prevent20 to Galvanise Cancer Societies Around Tobacco Taxation; HCC Partners with PAHO to Push for Regional Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies News: Communique - Thirty-Eighth CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting and Regional Press Coverage; HCC Represented at the First WHO Forum on Alcohol, Drugs and Addictive Behaviours. Read more

July 22nd - July 28th
Featured: Landmark Anti-smoking Bill Passed in Guyana - Tough Fines for Violators; The Antigua Tobacco Control Bill Debate News: Tobacco Control: Mobilising Caribbean Cancer Societies; UN Secretary General Lauds CARICOM Leadership on Global Issues; “Whole of Society” Approach Needed to Combat NCDs says PAHO Rep. Read more

July 29th - August 4th
Featured: No Turning Back on Guyana Tobacco Control Legislation; Calling All Caribbean Cancer Organisations News:A New Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas Nears Completion; Catching Prostate Cancer Early in Trinidad; Doctors Screen 5,000 for NCDs in Trinidad. Read more

August 5th - August 11th
Featured: Childhood Obesity Prevention News: Jamaica Minister of Health Dr. Tufton ‘Walks The Talk’ in Promoting Healthy Lifestyle; Online Consultation on Draft of WHO Global Action Plan on Physical Activity; Tobacco Endgame is Critical ‘Cog in the Wheel’ for Sustainable Development. Read more

August 12th - August 18th
Featured: Learning from Each Other: Barbados National NCD Commission Hosts the St. Lucia National NCD Commission/CARICOM NCD Commissions News: Landmark Tobacco Bill Will Save Lives; ‘Fat but Fit’ People Still Risk Heart Disease, Experts Say; Action Plan to Beat the Bulge. Read more

August 19th - August 29th
Featured: Caribbean Represented on the NCD Child Governing Council News: Caribbean Wellness Day 2017 - 9th September; Pan Institution Network Global Health (PINGH) Meeting; St Lucia NCD Commission Undergoes Training; Jamaica Moves partners with Fortis 5K. Read more

August 30th - September 9th
Featured: Caribbean Wellness Day 2017 – Today, September 9th; Side Event at the 72nd UN General Assembly: Childhood Obesity – A Development Time-bomb; Breaking Down Siloes, Building Synergies: Implementing NCDs in the SDG Era News: US CDC-PAHO Standardized Hypertension Treatment Project (SHTP) Barbados Pilot Officially Handed Over to the Barbados Government. Read more

September 10th - September 15th
Featured: Invitation to Side Event at the 72nd UN General Assembly Childhood Obesity - A Development Time-bomb; Breaking Down Siloes, Building Synergies: Implementing NCDs in the SDG Era News: Jamaica, Guyana and Dominica to Take Part in Three-Year Project to Reduce NCDs. Read more

September 16th - September 29th 2017
Featured: HCC and Partners Shine a Spotlight on Childhood Obesity at the 72nd UNGA; HCC and the Caribbean Development Bank Join Forces to Tackle Childhood Obesity in the Region News: Today is World Heart Day; The Trinidad and Tobago Heart Foundation (TTHF) in Celebration of World Heart Day. Read more

September 30th - October 6th
Featured: National NCD Commissions Talking to One Another News: Dr Joy St John, Appointed Assistant Director-General for Climate and Other Determinants of Health at the WHO; World Obesity Day 2017 - 11th October 2017; World Mental Health Day - Webinar, 10th October; Dr. Tedros Welcomes Open Letter on Tobacco Taxes. Read more

October 7th - October 13th
Featured: Civil Society Action Plan 2017-2021: Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean - Launched on World Obesity Day News: Belize Cancer Society - ‘A Mile in My Shoe’ - Cancer Awareness Flyer; Her Excellency Reema Carmona Pays Tribute to NCD Leaders at the UNGA72. Read more

October 14th - October 20th
Featured: Governments Commit to Reduce Suffering and Deaths from Noncommunicable Diseases; WHO Global Conference on NCDs; Caribbean Well Represented at the Global World Conference on NCDs; 120 Million Premature Deaths - How Many More Reasons Do We Need For Action?; Global Coalition for Circulatory Health Launches on the Occasion of WHO Global Conference on NCDs News: New Updated NOURISHING Framework. Read more

October 21st - October 27th
Featured: HCC Launches Online Portal of National NCD Commissions in CARICOM; HCC Report Launch - Model for Civil society Led Integration of NCD Prevention with Sexual and Reproductive Health Services News: Health Minister to Get Tough on Tobacco Companies; WHO - Tackling NCDs. Read more

October 28th - November 3rd
Featured: HCC Launches Policy Brief Which Takes a Closer Look at NCDs and Trade Policy in the Caribbean; Webinar: Alcohol and Cancer in the Caribbean News: The Trinidad and Tobago Heart Foundation (TTHF) Red Dress Masquerade Ball. Read more

November 6th - November 12th
Featured: CSOs Come Together to Develop Advocacy Campaigns Aimed at Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean; HCC and Partners Prepare for 2nd annual Caribbean Alcohol Day News: World Diabetes Day - 14th November 2017. Read more

November 17th
Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day, Friday November 17, 2017 - DRINK LESS, REDUCE CANCER HCC and it’s partners PAHO, CARPHA and CARICOM present the 2nd Annual Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day. The theme this year is: Drink Less, Reduce, Cancer; The objectives of the 2017 Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day; Caribbean Alcohol Reduction Day 2017. Read more

November 18th - November 24th
Featured: Heart Foundation of Jamaica Takes Aim at Obesity; Key Messages From Our Publications News: Alcohol and Cancer in the Caribbean Webinar Recording; Alcohol and Cancer Infographic Series; Lancet Editorial: Alcohol and Cancer. Read more

November 24th - December 1st
Featured: HCC Welcomes 2 New Technical Advisors; Key Messages From Our Publications News: Global NCD Alliance Forum 2017, 9th-11th December; St. Lucia Seeking to Ban Sale of Soft drinks at Schools; Fresh Calls for BVI to Ban Soft Drinks, Unhealthy Foods. Read more

December 2nd - December 15th 2017
Featured: HCC to Host ‘Caribbean NCD Forum’; The Second Global NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, UAE; HCC Wins Award for Excellence in Civil Society Action; HCC Technical Advisor to Work to Help Amplify Voices of People Living with NCDs in the Region; NCD Organisations Praised in Shajah News: Vital Strategies Fool Me Twice Report. Read more

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.

To join the HCC email us at hcc@healthycaribbean.org