Caribbean Cytometry and Analytical Society
The CCAS Managing Committee in Barbados.
The mission of the Caribbean Cytomtery and Analytical Society (CCAS) is to improve access to HAART in Barbados and the Caribbean by removing technical and social barriers to care. CCAS is a professional organisation that trains specialists involved in the care, treatment, and monitoring of HIV/AIDS persons. It was founded by members of the Ministry of Health, Government of Barbados and the University of the West Indies to meet the urgent training needs for specialist monitoring of HAART in Barbados and the region.
4th CCAS workshop in Barbados, August 2007.
The CCAS has brought to Barbados and the region international technical experts to conduct training workshops and seminars. Being a vendor-neutral workshop, the CCAS has also given the opportunity to scientists to choose the best diagnostics for their settings as other smaller Caribbean island states are still in the process of up-scaling their national HIV programmes.
CCAS workshops are now being hosted across the Caribbean region
The CCAS organising committee and local sculptor George Barron at the opening ceremony of the 5th CCAS workshop in Suriname in August 2008
To date, the CCAS has trained over 300 HIV/AIDS specialists from over 20 countries. After four successful workshops in Barbados in 2008 the CCAS workshop was held for the first time outside Barbados in Suriname.
The CCAS has partnered with societies in the United States and Europe such as the Clinical Cytometry Society (CCS) and the European Society for Clinical Cell Analysis (ESCCA) providing opportunities for regional scientists to attend international workshops to gain expertise and to network.
Leading experts from around the world in the field of HIV treatment and monitoring presenting their work to scientists in Barbados and the region
The 6th CCAS workshop is scheduled to be held in St.Kitts in August 2009 and will be a joint meeting of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network, CCAS, and the Centers for Disease and Control (CDC)
The CCAS is a registered charity in Barbados (Registered Charity No 660).
- The CCAS Secretariat
- Chronic Disease Research Centre, The University of the West Indies
- Jemmott’s Lane, St.Michael, Barbados BB 11115, West Indies
- Tel: 1-246-426-6416
- Fax: 1-246-426-8406
- E-mail: theccas@gmail.com
- For more information and up-to-date information on workshopswww.caribcas.org