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UNAIDS announces that the goal of 15 million people on life-saving HIV treatment by 2015 has been met nine months ahead of schedule
The world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA, 14 July 2015—The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to a new report released today…
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Sharp Decline in HIV Contraction Regionally
Combat HIV, AIDS and other diseases is United Nations Millennium Development goal number six. A July 15 United Nations AIDS Programme report indicates that compared to other regions of the world, the Caribbean region is way ahead in the achievement of this goal. According to the report titled, How AIDS Changed Everything — MDG 6: 15 years, 15 Lessons of…
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Sharing of ideas can boost regional education standards – Education Minister
A call was made by Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, for more efficient sharing of information and ideas on the challenges facing the education systems across the Caribbean. Minister Roopnaraine, addressing the opening of the Twenty-Seventh (27th) Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at the CARICOM Secretariat this morning, noted that despite its relative success in specific…
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ACS tourism meeting benefits TT
TOURISM in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the Greater Caribbean will be positive impacted by two very different, but important events this month, one in which the first steps have already been taken and the other in two weeks. With the signing last week of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Skills Training…
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International Development Partners Invest In Caribbean Disaster Risk Management
Bridgetown, Barbados, July 16th, 2015 (CDB) – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has joined forces with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada and the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom to strengthen the sustainable development agenda of CARICOM states. Through the USD24 million (mn), Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (CDRRF), CDB has for the…
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Jamaica gets millions in HIV funding
Despite news that surfaced last year that the United States President Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) had discontinued its funding of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network, the Ministry of Health on Monday announced that the Global Fund recently approved funding for the National HIV/STI Programme for the next three years. Grant funding has also been approved under…
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UNESCO conference explores reparations
Basseterre, St. Kitts – (SKNIS): A two-day conference hosted by the St. Kitts and Nevis UNESCO National Commission and forming part of the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the UNESCO International Scientific Slave Route Project, has reopened the dialogue on the negro legacy, including the matter of reparations for the descendants of the enslaved. The conference was held under…
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At Ethiopia Conference on Financing… President Granger champions global action for sustainable development
ON Saturday, President David Granger left the shores of Guyana for Ethiopia as chief of the Guyana delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, the centre of Ethiopia’s economic and political life. “This Third International Conference on Financing for Development… must make a fundamental contribution to the thrust towards greater global cooperation,” President Granger…
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High CARICOM Expectations for UN Financing for Development Conference
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is attaching great importance to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday. CARICOM Heads of Government at their recent summit in Barbados stated that they; “…looked forward to the identification of the financial resources, including new resources, required to assist developing countries in addressing their major development challenges,…
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CARICOM considers debt relief proposal
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – Caricom is considering a proposal for the region to pursue gradual write-off of its multilateral debt as a means of economic prosperity. The debt relief strategy was put forward by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the 36th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, held recently…
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