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UNAIDS Best Practice Series, 2004

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RCM Chair Confident Region Will Survive Cuts in Global Funding

By Leroy Aldophus

VIENNA, Austria, CMC -Chairman of the Pan Caribbean Agreement Partnership Against HIV/AIDS Regional Coordinating Mechanism (PANCAP - RCM) , Ann Peters, said she is confident that despite cuts in global funding, the Caribbean will continue providing adequate care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

In the Caribbean

Regional Assessment of Patent and Related Issues and Access to Medicines Vol. I Regional Assessment of Patent and Related Issues and Access to Medicines Vol. I

Speeches and Presentations

IAC 2010 PANCAP Satellite - Patrice Joseph International AIDS Conference 2010 PANCAP Satellite - The Haitian Experience by Dr. Patrice Joseph

World

More than two million AIDS related deaths reported globally in 2008 More than two million AIDS related deaths reported globally in 2008 - two million children under the age of 15 now live with HIV New figures released by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS estimate...

HIV/AIDS Education

Abstinence programme in school yielding success The building of self-esteem in young persons is especially crucial in the promotion of abstinence in the school environment, according to Youth Challenge Guyana’s (YCG) Community Outreach Coordinator, Sham...

Health

FDA Approves First Nucleic Acid Test To Screen For Additional Types Of HIV In Donated Blood And Tiss The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the cobas TaqScreen MPX Test, the first nucleic acid test that screens for the presence of two divergent types of HIV in donated blood plasma and tissue. "With...

Anti Stigma Campaigns
Vacancies
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is currently coordinating the development of a multi-country proposal to be submitted to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in round 10. The proposal will seek to support and accelerate the scaling up of programs and services aimed at elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and other STI in the Caribbean.

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Call for Expression of Interest

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU), Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network seeks applications for DEPUTY DIRECTOR.

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CHART RCU Dep Director Advertisement

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Project Matrix Questionaire

Is your HIV/AIDS Project listed in the PANCAP Matrix (view summary below)? Otherwise download, fill out and return a simple 3-page Questionnaire (55KB Word document) to update or add new information about your project.To download please click here

Project Matrix

Country	Projects
Antigua & Barbuda	5
Aruba	3
Bahamas	2
Barbados	12
Belize	7
Bermuda	0
British Virgin Islands	0
Caribbean Region	109
Cayman Islands	0
Cuba	1
Curacao	0
Dominica	6
Dominican Republic	4
DOTs	0
FDA-BOT-DOT (French, British & Dutch Territories)	0
French Guiana	0
Global	32
Grenada	9
Guadeloupe	0
Guyana	6
Haiti	14
Jamaica	11
Martinique	0
Mexico	0
Montserrat	3
Netherlands	8
OECS	0
Puerto Rico	0
St. Kitts & Nevis	8
St. Lucia	12
St. Maarten	0
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	6
Suriname	20
Trinidad and Tobago	15
Turks & Caicos Islands	2
US Virgin Islands	1
Total Projects: 296
Total Budget: US$ 1310542488.07

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HIV in the Caribbean:

Progress and Challenges

The second highest HIV prevalence rate in the world after sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV prevalence – 1.1% (range 0.9% - 1.2%)

The leading cause of death among persons aged 15–44 years.

An estimated 230,000 persons living with HIV

20,000 persons newly infected in 2007

Presentation to PANCAP AGM October 2008

J Peter Figueroa, Prof of Public Health, Epidemiology & AIDSDept of Community Health & Psychiatry, UWI

Read the presentation at: http://pancap.org/index.php

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