Jacqueline Hugtenburg accepted her appointment as professor by special appointment at the University of Curaçao (UoC) on April 19, 2023. For the next three years she will devote herself to this position, in the chair of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hugtenburg is a pharmacist and associate professor at the VU Medical…
By Dr. Shacara Blake The Caribbean Prevention Center has been on a mission since 2010 to reduce cancer related mortality on the island. The main goal is to find pre-cursors and early stages of breast cancer, cervical cancer and colorectal cancer so that they may be treated and overall survival can be increased. Although, when discribed like this it sounds…
The Caribbean Prevention Center is delighted to have started a five-year quality project with the appointment of the Quality Manager, Dr. Soraya Verstraeten, in November 2021. The goal of the project is to implement internationally recognized standards that ensure that the services meet the needs of clients through an effective quality management system. The Caribbean Prevention Center’s decision to work towards…
In 2009, Fundashon Prevenshon was offered by the Jacob Foundation the building at Klipstraat 11 in Otrobanda.
The housing option was offered free of charge, for a period of 10 years.
Jacob Gelt Dekker passed away in september 2019.
In 2010 a Transport Bus for the participants was donated.