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Health News Archive

To view all the news articles that appeared in a particular year, click on a link below.

 


Journalists can play a key role in raising awareness of non-communicable diseases – public health experts
Released:  9 August 2011
Workshop brings together policymakers, campaigners, media and youth

Caribbean journalists to raise awareness on non-communicable diseases
Released:  5 August 2011
Workshop equips Caribbean journalists to better inform the public of life-threatening NCDs and to influence policy-makers

Commonwealth video campaign targets NCDs risk in young people
Released:  4 August 2011
“It is imperative that NCD prevention programmes target youth since lifestyle habits are often adopted at this stage of life and frequently remain well into adulthood,” Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith

Commonwealth assists countries with UN recommendations on HIV
Released:  15 July 2011
Meeting focuses on ways of improving access to prevention and treatment of disease

Caribbean women leaders seek higher representation in parliament
Released:  11 July 2011
“That call to leadership must be nurtured in women of all social strata, representing the full diversity of women” – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Women leaders gather for first Caribbean regional colloquium on women empowerment
Released:  28 June 2011
“It is a truly historic moment when women leaders in the region can come together to decide on the path towards empowerment in the lives of women” - Kamla Persad-Bissessar

New publication highlights Commonwealth’s fight against spread of non-communicable diseases
Released:  17 June 2011
17 case studies focus on initiatives in developed and developing countries

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to address London meeting on women’s rights
Released:  14 June 2011
Speakers include Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Foreign Minister, and Baroness Verma, Department for International Development’s Spokesperson in the House of Lords

Safe and affordable medicines crucial to development goals
Released:  13 June 2011
“We need to speak as one body with one voice to halt the traffic of falsified medicines”

Commonwealth celebrates achievements but recognises challenges ahead at UN meeting on AIDS
Released:  11 June 2011
“The Commonwealth fully supports the drive towards zero new infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths” – Commonwealth Secretariat