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The Editor speaks: AIDS
On Tuesday we made the world aware of AIDS. Here in the Cayman Islands we joined the rest of the world in marking World AIDS Day, which has the theme this year ‘On the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030’….
New targets set for controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean – PAHO
From Caribbean360 MEXICO CITY, Mexico, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says Latin America and the Caribbean have established new targets for expanding diagnosis and antiretroviral treatment (ART) and reducing patients’ viral loads by the year 2020. The…
Results needed Prime Minister Douglas tells Caribbean Human Rights Consultation
From SKNVibes (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) — “We need results. It is time for accelerated action”, says St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, and Chair of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS, the Rt Hon. Dr….
Anti-gay laws undermine fight against HIV/AIDS in Caribbean – experts
By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Anti-gay laws and cultural attitudes are preventing the most vulnerable people accessing HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programmes in parts of the Caribbean, UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and…
Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda to take place in Jamaica
From Bahama Islands Info CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana — The Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda takes place on 9-11 April 2014, at The Jamaica Pegasus, Kingston, Jamaica. The three-day dialogue advances the Caribbean…
Eight Caribbean countries to strengthen HIV programmes – UNAIDS
From Caribbean360 The representatives from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago met her last week for a three-day workshop hosted by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday…
Initiative to sustain Caribbean HIV responses underway
PHOTO: Minister of Health Alvina Reynolds On Jan. 23 government representatives from the health and finance ministries of eight Caribbean countries joined civil society and international development partners in Gros Islet, St. Lucia to begin two days of deliberations on…
