Health

The Caribbean Cooperation in Health Phase III (CCH III) Regional Health Framework – The CCH III represents a mechanism to unite Caribbean territories in a common goal to improve health and wellbeing, develop the productive potential of the people, and, by definition, the competitive advantage of the region.

The Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018 - the successor to the CRSF 2008-2012 - provides strategic direction and programmatic orientation for the members of PANCAP in their pursuit of universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services by 2018.

The Caribbean Community, CARICOM, consists of 15 full member countries with a total population of about 15 million people. There are 5 associate member states with a total population of about 164,000. These populations are of different sizes and are diverse in people, language, skills and levels of development - economic and social . In general, the Caribbean is disadvantaged with respect to their small size and small economies that limit resources and investments.

It is often pointed out that the groups most vulnerable to HIV infection are men who have sex with men, sex workers and injecting drug users and that, as the epidemic spreads, females are more vulnerable than males. It is less often pointed out that large proportions of people in all of those categories are young and that more than half of the people newly infected with HIV each year are under the age of 25 (UNAIDS, 2006a; UNAIDS Inter-agency Task Team on Young People, 2006).

Healthy Lifestyles and Schools 
September 2009