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May 13, 2008 News
The University of the West Indies (UWI) has received the approval of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for a technical assistance grant in the amount of US$650,000 to undertake a project to establish research and surveillance programmes for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD).
According to a press release, UWI Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat, and IDB Resident Representative, Iwan Sewbarath Misir, will sign the contract document for the project at the Office of the Campus Principal, UWI St Augustine Campus, on Friday at 2:00 p.m.
Entitled “Regional Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) Surveillance System”, the project will improve the region’s capacity to deliver cost-effective health services associated with NCD, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer and respiratory diseases.
The six IDB member countries from the region — The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago — are all participating in the project, which is being led by the Chief Medical Officers of Health, who have designated Focal Points from their Ministries to coordinate the national activities.
The release indicated that the three-year project involves the establishment of National Registers on Chronic NCD in the six countries, the establishment and pilot testing of a regional NCD surveillance system, and policy guidance to implement the Declaration of Port-of-Spain that emanated from the CARICOM Summit of Heads of State and Government on Chronic Non Communicable Diseases.
The UWI will execute the project in close collaboration with the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre/Pan American Health Organisation (CAREC/PAHO).
The UWI project team spans the three campuses, and is led by Prof. Surujpal Teelucksingh of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, St. Augustine Campus.
Chancellor of the University, Sir George Alleyne, worked closely with the project team in formulating the components of the project.
The UWI Business Development Office was also instrumental in the preparation of the project documents.
The UWI was assisted in the development of the proposal by Ian Ho-A-Shu of the IDB Office in Port-of-Spain, together with Laura Bocalandro, Dr. Andre Medici and Rafael Villa from the IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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