PANCAP
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PANCAP Justice for All Programme is on the way
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) continues to marshal its forces to “beat back” the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS with the launch of its Justice for All Programme. The programme aims to build on initiatives to create a supportive environment for eliminating stigma and discrimination and for…
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Caribbean HIV/AIDS Partnership Named Global Best Practice By CARICOM and UNAIDS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Monday, 13 December 2004 is a significant day for the Caribbean region in its fight against HIV/AIDS. On this day, the joint CARICOM/UNAIDS Secretariat publication: Common Goals, Shared Responses: A Case Study on the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS – PANCAP will be launched at the Half Moon Hotel, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. This launch signals the…
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Caribbean Gathering At AIDS Conference Stress Universal Access
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The future strategy of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), must place emphasis on universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. This was the view of more than 150 delegates representing member countries and organisations of PANCAP attending a Caribbean Gathering held as one of the side events at the 16th International HIV/AIDS…
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PANCAP EXECUTIVE BOARD REVIEWS CARIBBEAN HIV/AIDS RESPONSE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Sixth Meeting of the Executive Board of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) – coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) began yesterday 20 April 2006 in Trinidad and Tobago. In opening remarks to the two-day meeting of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism, as the Board is called, CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development…
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REGIONAL HIV/AIDS OFFICIALS FOCUS ON UNIVERSAL ACCESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) will host a Consultation on Universal Access to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Treatment, 14 -15 February in Kingston, Jamaica. The Consultation represents one of the ongoing activities being coordinated globally by the UNAIDS Global Steering Committee, with the aim of securing major policy changes…
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CARICOM/PANCAP COMES IN FOR PRAISE FROM THE GLOBAL FUND
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, (PANCAP), came in for praise from officials of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), popularly known as the Global Fund. The Chair of the Board of the GFATM and the Executive Director of the GFATM, Dr. Carol Jacobs and…
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PANCAP INITIATIVES RECOGNISED BEYOND REGIONAL BOUNDARIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), which was launched by the CARICOM Heads of Government in 2001 as a mechanism for coordinating the response to preventing the spread and mitigating the impact of the disease in the Region has gained recognition even beyond the boundaries of the Caribbean. In updating the Thirteenth Meeting of the…
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PANCAP HOLDS FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: CARIBBEAN BUSINESS COALITION ON HIV/AIDS LAUNCHED
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Fifth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) takes place on 31 October to 2 November, in Trinidad and Tobago, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Among the key features of this fifth AGM is the launch of the Pan Caribbean Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS during the opening ceremony in the…
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PANCAP CONGRATULATES NEW CHAIR OF GLOBAL FUND
Dr. Carol Jacobs, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) representative to the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, was elected as the new Chair at the Fund's Tenth Board Meeting currently underway in Geneva, Switzerland. Unanimously elected for a two-year term, Dr Jacobs holds the distinction of being the first woman ever to be selected, and…
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CARICOM/PANCAP PARTNERS IN NEW HIV/AIDS LANDMARK
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The decision by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and its partners: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the German Development Bank (KfW) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for a regional social marketing programme represents a new landmark in the Caribbean's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This decision was the result…
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