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  ...

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The Christian community in Guyana has announced that it will be going all out in its efforts to block the passage of any legislation that would lead to the decriminalisation of same sex relations. Several church bodies issued a statement on Thursday calling on the government to resist pressure to  ...

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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 ...

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Guyana’s achievements in the fight against HIV/Aids and concerns about curtailed donor funding were the highlight of discussions yesterday between UNAIDS Director of Caribbean Regional support team, Ernest Messiah and President Donald Ramotar. The meeting follows Guyana’s success story in the ...

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CARICOM leaders are being urged to stop paying lip service and act on ensuring the human rights are in place as they relate to a resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). The Heads of Government are meeting in St. Lucia where several regional civil society organisations called o ...

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Guyana will continue to fight to reduce the HIV/AIDS epidemic despite scarce funding from international agencies, Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran said. Dr Ramsaran told Guyana Times that the administration is making every effort to continue programmes which were started with the help of the United ...

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Vulnerable groups in Guyana and the Caribbean say they could be denied European Union (EU) funds being administered by the regional trade and integration bloc, CARICOM. The groups making the claim include organizations that represent drug users, orphans and vulnerable children, commercial sex worke ...

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This report was authored by Christopher Carrico and published by the Faculty of Law UWI Rights Advocacy Project, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies. Date of publication : March 2012   From the Executive Summary This study focused on the social effects of laws that criminalise  ...

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The HIV prevalence among the general population in Guyana has been steadily decreasing since 2004 from 2.4 percent to 1.07 percent in 2011. Additionally, the proportion of all deaths attributable to AIDS has also steadily declined by 56 percent since 2002. According to Guyana’s Global AIDS Progr ...

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The level of complacency amongst Guyanese affected by HIV has risen over the past few years, according to the director of National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), Dr Shanti Singh. Dr Singh made those remarks on Monday at the Health Ministry/ UNAIDS launch of the fourth draft of the Country’s Pr ...

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The Guyanese population is taking ownership of HIV and AIDS and taking action to help stop its spread. According to Ms. Deborah Success-Hall, National Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Coordinator, National AIDS Programme Secretariat, there are only few countries that can equal Guyana’s recor ...

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The compilation of a national strategic plan to counter sexually transmitted infections has begun through an initiative by the ministry of health through the national aids programme secretariat. The plan paves the way for the prevention and eradication of such infections, while creating greater aw ...

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On January 24th 2011 the PEPFAR Regional Coordinator (Eastern Caribbean) William Conn facilitated a meeting between the PCU and PEPFAR Guyana Team (names) , CDC Guyana (name), Lindsay Stewart of USAID Washington and Chris O’Connell of President Ocala’s Office of Global AIDS Coordination (OAK).  ...

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  A Brief Profile of Guyana Guyana is an original signatory to the 1973 Treaty of Chaguaramas which brought the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) into being, and which later created the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP)in February 2001. Hailed as a strong leader in the Carib ...

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Opening Address By Hon. Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister Of Health, Guyana To The 16th Meeting, PANCAP Executive Board 30-31 March 2011, Georgetown, Guyana These are good times. These are troubling times. Great threats lurk around us. They are knocking at the door and, indeed, some of the ...

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