Nearly 100 civil society and other key stakeholders gathered in Jamaica this week to ensure that the Caribbean is fully engaged in the 3rd UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on NCDs.

Hosted by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), the objectives of the Caribbean NCD Forum were to:

Take stock of NCD progress in the Caribbean
Harmonise Caribbean Community priority areas for the UNHLM 2018
Discuss strategies to encourage the highest level of political attendance at the 2018 UNHLM, and
Explore post-2018 strategies towards the achievement of 25x25 and SDGs.

The event included the Jamaica launch of the Childhood Obesity Prevention online petition, part of the HCC’s TooMuchJunk campaign. The petition calls on CARICOM Heads of Government to reduce childhood obesity through the enactment of policies and legislation aimed at curbing sales and promotion of junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages.

The Forum was held in collaboration with HCC partners: the Jamaica Ministry of Health, the NCD Alliance, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWI OC), together with HCC member organisations.

NCD Alliance CEO Katie Dain spoke at the Forum.

See the Press release for the Caribbean NCD Forum.

Sign the Childhood Obesity Prevention petition.

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Resources

Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean

The development of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition’s (HCC’s) Civil Society Action Plan 2017-2021: Preventing Childhood Obesity in the Caribbean is a further step in fulfilling HCC’s mission “to harness the power of civil society, in collaboration with government, academia, international partners, and private sector, as appropriate, in the development and implementation of plans for the prevention and management of chronic noncommunicable diseases among Caribbean people”.

NCDs Prevention & Control, childhood obesity
NCDs and Trade Policy in the Caribbean

This policy brief highlights the interactions and relationships between trade and NCDs and the role of trade policy actions in support of the prevention and control of this group of diseases in the Caribbean.

, national and regional alliances
Improving the Healthiness of Food Environments in the Caribbean (842.23kB)

The CARPHA Evidence Brief for Improving the Healthiness of Food Environments in the Caribbean was launched last week at the Stakeholder Dialogue.
Healthy Caribbean Coalition Civil Society Regional Status Report - Responses to NCDs in the Caribbean Community

The report aims to provide a detailed assessment of progress made in tackling NCDs in the Caribbean as viewed by civil society, and in- cludes a call to action in those areas in which gaps have been detected and about which the HCC will encourage and assist civil society organsation (CSO) led advocacy.

Healthy Caribbean Coalition, Region of the Americas

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