world aids day 2015
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Caribbean countries report end to mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis
– 17 countries in Americas may have eliminated mother-to-child HIV transmission – U.N. BOGOTA, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Data from 17 countries and territories across the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Chile, show they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the U.N. World Health Organization said on Monday. The countries were able to…
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PANCAP/CARICOM marks World AIDS Day 2015 Guyana National AIDS Programme receives donation
PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director, Mr. Dereck Springer Collective will needed to sustain HIV response – PANCAP Head More than G$100,000 in food and other items were handed over to the Guyana National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS) in a brief ceremony at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat to observe World AIDS Day 2015 on 1 December. At the ceremony, PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director,…
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Director, Pancap Coordinating Unit Message On The Occasion Of 2015 World Aids Day
This year’s World AIDS Day theme “Ending the AIDS epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, is aligned to the new PANCAP Vision – An AIDS Free Caribbean and reminds us of the need to retain the HIV response within the post 2015 global agenda. Director, Pancap Coordinating Unit Mr Dereck Springer Earlier this year on September…
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Dr. Edward Greene, UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for HIV In The Caribbean World Aids Day Message On The Occasion Of 2015 World Aids Day
LET US RESOLVE TO MAKE THE CARIBBEAN FIRST TO ZERO Another year. Another World AIDS Day. So much to celebrate yet so much more to achieve. Young people are still dying. Rates of infection are too high among vulnerable groups. Raging stigma and discrimination continue to fan the flames of the disease. Volumes of information are available, yet intolerance…
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UNAIDS: Caribbean can accelerate progress to end AIDS as public health threat
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday November 25, 2015 – The Caribbean is being told it can build on the gains of its HIV responses to end AIDS as a public health threat, if it follows a new strategy created by the United Nations’ Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A new global HIV report released yesterday ahead of World AIDS Day, ‘Focus…
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