HIV/AIDS

  • Photo of Stigma and Discrimination driving the HIV epidemic in the caribbean PANCAP statement

    Stigma and Discrimination driving the HIV epidemic in the caribbean PANCAP statement

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) affirms that Professor Brendan Bain’s testimony in the Orozco v. A.G. Belize (2012) case is not consistent with the stated goals of PANCAP to reduce stigma and eliminate discrimination. In fact, it is in dissonance with PANCAP’s ongoing work to remove discriminatory laws and affirm…

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  • Photo of Remarks By Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary  General, Human And Social Development at The opening  Ceremony  of The Twenty-Sixth Meeting Of (COHSOD)   14 – 15 May, 2014,  Georgetown, Guyana

    Remarks By Dr. Douglas Slater, Assistant Secretary General, Human And Social Development at The opening Ceremony of The Twenty-Sixth Meeting Of (COHSOD)  14 – 15 May, 2014,  Georgetown, Guyana

    It is  a distinct pleasure to welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) convened under the Theme of Labour and Gender. I would like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude to the ILO, the UN Women and the Caribbean Development Bank, for their support of this event and their on-going dedication…

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  • Photo of MINISTRY OF HEALTH ON VERGE OF RAPID HIV TESTING

    MINISTRY OF HEALTH ON VERGE OF RAPID HIV TESTING

    Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 09, 2014 (SKNIS): The St. Kitts and Nevis Ministry of Health is on the verge of offering Point of Care (POC) Rapid Testing as a means of scaling up prevention and early detection of HIV. The National AIDS Secretariat in the Ministry of Health has informed that Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Providers are currently in…

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  • Photo of CARICOM, Germany hold discussions

    CARICOM, Germany hold discussions

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan PhD., will lead a CARICOM Secretariat delegation on Tuesday to talks with a team from Germany headed by His Excellency Stefan Schlueter, Ambassador of Germany to CARICOM. The visiting side will include representatives from the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation, the Society for International…

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  • Photo of PM Douglas outlines roadmap for post 2015 HIV/AIDS development agenda

    PM Douglas outlines roadmap for post 2015 HIV/AIDS development agenda

    The Caribbean’s lead spokesman on HIV/AIDS, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has outlined elements which could form the roadmap for post 2015 development agenda and removing the barriers in policies, laws, values and behaviour that are spoilers in the march toward social justice. He told a three-day consultative workshop in Jamaica, part…

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  • Photo of Regional HIV Consultation identifies steps to eliminate stigma and discrimination

    Regional HIV Consultation identifies steps to eliminate stigma and discrimination

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     After two days of dialogue, more than 75 delegates, representing Caribbean countries, regional institutions and development partners of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), arrived at approximately 15 actionable recommendations aimed at ending HIV-related stigma and discrimination over the next three to five years. The regional dialogue benefited from the charge…

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  • Photo of Results needed Prime Minister Douglas tells Caribbean Human Rights Consultation

    Results needed Prime Minister Douglas tells Caribbean Human Rights Consultation

    (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. Denzil Douglas. The Prime Minister was speaking at the official opening of the Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda,…

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  • PANCAP HOLDS JUSTICE FOR ALL AND HUMAN RIGHTS   CONSULTATION

    (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 human rights agenda and is the culmination of a series of national consultations held over the past six months in several Caribbean countries. These consultations…

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  • Eight Caribbean countries to strengthen HIV programmes – UNAIDS

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday February 25, 2014, CMC – UNAIDS Caribbean said Monday that eight regional countries have finalised specific strategies aimed at strengthening their HIV programmes by making them more responsive to human rights. It said that the representatives from Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago met her last week for a…

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  • Commit to move from Promise to Reality: Justice for all in ‘A Community for All’  MESSAGE BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM,  AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY 2013

    As we commemorate World AIDS Day on 1 December and its significance, we do so at a time when the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in its fortieth year of existence, has renewed and heightened its focus on its reason for being.  A Community for All is much more than a tagline! Rather, it reflects the “lifeline” extended to us by the…

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