Ministry secures US$48.8M funding for NCDs

This was announced yesterday by Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh at the inaugural Caribbean Cancer Survivorship Conference, UTT Campus, at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA), Port-of- Spain.

Deyalsingh said this plan is in alignment with national policy agenda of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GORTT), which acknowledges that multiple factors and social determinants combine together to affect the health of individuals and communities, including, inter alia, where people live, where people work, where people play, the environment, genetics, income, education, and relationship with friends and family.

“It also utilises key approaches to population health and development including: primary health care, universal health coverage, standards of care, integrated management, ‘health in all policies’ and multisectoral approaches involving the whole of government and whole of society,” Deyalsingh explained.

He said the plan outlines the strategic direction for the response to NCDs in Trinidad and Tobago and the strategic outcomes that partners from Government,the private sector and civil society, will be engaged in to collaborate toward achievement over the period 2015-2020.