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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) will hold three meetings related to its governance and operations on 17 to 18 November 2011, in The Bahamas. The Seventeenth Meeting of the Executive Board and Second Meeting of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Global Fund Projects (RCMGFP) take place on 17 November, while the wider membership of the Partnership will meet at its highest forum, the Annual General Meeting, on 18 November. Under the chairmanship of its Vice Chair, Prof. Peter Figueroa, the Executive Board which has responsibility for providing policy guidance on the effective management and operation of the Partnership, will review the issues and recommendations in several Board Papers. Among them: a progress report and financial analysis of implementing the Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework and the promotion of the PANCAP Stigma Framework, as a guide for developing a comprehensive country level approach to reducing HIV Stigma and discrimination. Some specific recommendations related to the financial sustainability of the Partnership and for meeting partners strategic information needs through a more harmonized and coordinated approach will also come up for consideration. Outgoing Chair of the Executive Board, Dr the Hon Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana’s Health Minister, will chair the meeting of the RCMGFP which will receive, several reports, including on the status of implementation of the Round 9 Global Fund Grant and the PAHO-UWI’s Round 11 Global Fund proposal. Recommendations for strengthening the RCM’s oversight role in the Global Fund process will also be tabled. Under the theme Enhancing Country Ownership and Sustainability, the agenda of this eleventh annual general meeting includes three special sessions which reflects, on the epidemic and the sustainability of the Caribbean’s response. The meetings slated for 17 November begin with a brief official opening at 8:30 a.m. at the British Colonial Inn and will be chaired by PANCAP Director, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland. A wide cross-section of representatives has been invited and speakers include Minister of Health of the Bahamas, the Hon. Dr. Hubert A. Minis, M.P. and Officer-in Charge, Directorate of Human and Social Development at the CARICOM Secretariat, Ms. Myrna Bernard. PANCAP is a regional Partnership which was established in February 2001 to respond to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean. Its vision is to substantially reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean through sustainable systems of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. Its goals are By 2012, to reduce: the estimated number of new infections by 25%; HIV mortality by 25% the social and economic impact of HIV and AIDS on households by 25% |
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