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GPHC creates centre for improved care for HIV/AIDS patients
Over a five-year period, Guyana has developed an advance care and support system for persons affected by HIV and AIDS, through partnership and collaborative efforts of USAIDS, Center for Diseases Control, and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, GPHC. “Under the establishment of Presidents ...
HIV, AIDS indeed preventable
Twenty-one years ago, on Nov. 7, 1991, America was jolted with the news that basketball legend Magic Johnson had contracted HIV and would immediately retire. Almost immediately, Johnson began taking the antiretroviral drug AZT, and his health quickly improved. Just three months later, Johnson ret ...
HIV/AIDS Teen PEP Workshop dubbed another success
Freeport, Bahamas - Grand Bahama's Red Rose Ball Committee (RRBC) held its second annual HIV/AIDS Teen Prevention Education Program (PEP) Intervention Workshop Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at Canal House, Pelican Bay sponsored by the United States embassy. The workshop started on a high note at 9:00 ...
Elimination of Stigma and Discrimination high on Global Agenda
Four newly appointed UN Secretary General Special Envoys for HIV met in Geneva on 4-5 October 2012 to discuss a plan of action with Michel Sidibé, UN Undersecretary General and UNAIDS Executive Director. In addition to sharing the strategic priorities for Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Eur ...
Prevention of HIV infection for people who inject drugs: why individual, structural, and combination approaches are needed
Authors: Degenhardt,L.; Mathers,B.; Vickerman,P. Produced by: The Lancet (2010) HIV can spread rapidly between people who inject drugs (through injections and sexual transmission), and potentially the virus can pass to the wider community (by sexual transmission). The authors of this article: summar ...
Gladstone-Led Study Underscores Truvada's Potency In Preventing The Transmission Of HIV
New research from an international team of HIV/AIDS experts has reaffirmed the effectiveness of Truvada-the first and only medication approved by the FDA for HIV prevention. Led by Gladstone Investigator Robert Grant, MD, MPH and Peter Anderson, PharmD, at the University of Colorado, the research pr ...
Project to Focus on HIV and AIDS Intervention
Antigua St. John’s - Talks are in the advanced stage to mobilise “key policy gatekeepers” to expand and strengthen HIV/AIDS response in Antigua & Barbuda and the wider Eastern Caribbean. Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Transformation Senator Malaka Parker and S ...
Male circumcision may not make much difference to overall male HIV incidence in Caribbean context
by Gus Cairns A cross-sectional study of men attending a large HIV/STI clinic in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has found that, without adjusting for other factors, self-reported HIV and STI prevalence was actually higher in circumcised than in uncircumcised men. The researchers conclude: “There is ...
FDA approves HIV treatment that combines four medications into one daily pill
CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A new drug that contains four different medications to help treat HIV infection has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Gilead Sciences' Stribild is a once-a-day treatment that can help control the virus that causes AIDS. It is intended to be used on people who ...
Technical Working Group on Prevention Meeting
The PANCAP Technical Working Group on Prevention was established following a meeting of the PANCAP Donor partners in July 2011. Its role was to identify action needed to achieve improved HIV prevention results in the Caribbean by 2015, based on the targets set at the UN High Level Meeting of 2 ...
European Community Overseas Caribbean Territories (ECOCT) Steering Committee Meeting
A Steering Committee Meeting of the European Community Overseas Caribbean Territories (ECOCT) Project is being held in Aruba on September 6-7, 2012 with technical support from PAHO/WHO. It is being financed by the European Commission through the “Strengthening the Integration of British and ...
PSI launches T-shirt campaign to help fight HIV/Aids
The local arm of Population Services International Caribbean (PSI) has introduced a line of trendy T-shirts to its educational arsenal toward the prevention of HIV/Aids in T&T. The catchy slogan is Got It? Get It (GIGI). The non-profit organisation which embarked on a regional condom social ma ...
More ‘political will needed’ to fight AIDS
St. John’s Antigua- Policymakers must be approached with evidence-based advocacy to create even greater political will in the fight against AIDS, advised regional coordinator of the Caribbean Regional Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (CRN+), Yolande Simon on Wednesday.
She was referrin ...
Turning the tide: not without prisons!
26 July 2012 - On the margins of the Washington XIX International AIDS Conference, UNODC held a session entitled "Turning the Tide: Not Without Prisons", to underline the urgency of developing national AIDS responses that include people in prisons.
During the session, UNODC launched a joint policy ...
Haiti wins international award for HIV/AIDS work
CMC – An organisation in Haiti is among 10 community-based organisations worldwide honoured for their innovative and outstanding community work in the response to the AIDS epidemic. The Red Ribbon Award, which was first presented in 2006, is handed out every two years. SEROvie of Haiti, whic ...
Global Fund Results Show Broad Gains Against HIV
GENEVA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show a significant increase in treatment of HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
The results show that 3.6 million people living with HIV are now receiving anti-retrovir ...
Stigma Takes Center Stage at HRC Panel
Saturday evening, ahead of today’s opening of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) here in D.C., the Human Rights Campaign hosted an event focusing on stigma’s role in the fight against HIV/AIDS, looking not only at the U.S., but to the Caribbean and Latin America.
Chad Griffin, ...
Caribbean Moves to Protect Rights of HIV-Positive Workers
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jul 19 2012 (IPS) - Thirty years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, Caribbean countries are slowly putting necessary legislation in place to ensure the rights of workers despite their HIV/AIDS and chronic disease status.
In June, Cabinet approved the St. Kitts and Nevis Workpla ...
Guyana moving to treat Hiv/Aids as Non-Communicable disease
Guyana is now shifting its focus from treating Hiv/Aids as an emergency to a chronic non-communicable disease. This is according to Health Minister, Dr. Bheri Ramsarran who noted that this model is being adopted by the wider Caribbean region. “We are going to be looking at persons that need mo ...
Summit on Family Planning stresses on linkages with HIV services
Putting the spotlight back on family planning, the UK Government along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation organised a summit in London to support the right of women and girls to decide, freely and for themselves, whether, when and how many children they have.
In partnership with the Uni ...
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