World AIDS Day – Working with Communities to End HIV/AIDS
OECS Media Release This year marks 42 years since the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documented the first cases of AIDS. Since the beginning of the epidemic, communities have played and continue to play, a vital role…
Thirty-three programme planners and health care service providers graduate from Clinical Management of HIV programme
Friday, 18 November 2022 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, in collaboration with the Ministry of…
Cayman: Free HIV tests to celebrate HIV Testing Week 2021
The Health Services Authority (HSA) and the Cayman Islands Red Cross will once again join forces in coordinating free HIV testing to mark HIV Testing Week which will be observed in the Cayman Islands from June 21st-25th. “Although the COVID-19…
Dominica celebrates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
The country is the eighth in the Caribbean to receive validation from WHO for the dual elimination. New HIV infections among children in the Caribbean declined by nearly 40% between 2019 and 2010. Washington, D.C., May 14, 2021 (PAHO) –…
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Caribbean Life’s Roundup
By Azad Ali From Caribbean Life Caribbean Progress has been made in reducing new infections and AIDS-related deaths, but these gains appear weak. This is according to a new report titled “Communities at the Center-The response to HIV in the…
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World AIDS Day – 1 December campaign encourages health workers and youth to have open conversations about HIV
Washington, DC, 27 November (PAHO)- ‘Talk to me openly’ – the slogan for this year’s World AIDS Day campaign by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), UNAIDS, UNICEF, the Latin American Network of Young People Living with HIV (J+LAC), and the Pan Caribbean…
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PAHO-WHO at the 10th IAS conference on HIV science
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION www.paho.org WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION www.who.int News and Public Information Media Advisory PAHO/WHO at IAS2019 Experts from PAHO/WHO to participate in international scientific conference on HIV/AIDS in Mexico The Director of PAHO, Carissa F. Etienne, will be a keynote speaker…
He Jiankui: Baby gene experiment ‘foolish and dangerous’
By James Gallagher From BBC The first people to be gene-edited – a pair of baby twin girls – may have been mutated in a way that shortens life expectancy, research suggests. Prof He Jiankui shocked the world when he…
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Regional health and communications specialists develop key messaging on non-communicable diseases
Friday, May 10, 2019 — Willemstad, Curaçao: Over 35 healthcare and communications professionals from 25 Caribbean countries met in Curaçao from April 29-30, 2019 to finalise a regional strategy aimed at the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – the number one…
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London man is second reported to be cured of HIV, a major development in the fight against AIDS
From The Virgin Islands Consortium Researchers revealed on Monday that a man infected with HIV may be the second person to beat the virus that causes AIDS, a development that takes the fight in finding a cure a giant leap…
