Archive for the ‘HIV/AIDS News’ Category
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
A statement from the Joint United Nations Team on
AIDS in Guyana
Guyana gets it right
criminalising HIV won’t work!
8 September, 2011— Guyana’s Special Select Committee of Parliament on the Criminal Responsibility of HIV Infected Individuals has chosen not to make the transmission of HIV a criminal act. The Joint United ...
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
“The Guyana National HIV Strategy 2007 to 2011” will soon be coming to its end.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recognises that this Strategy has brought Guyana to a point where it is a now strong leader in the Caribbean, because the country has the capacity to lead ...
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
Zero new HIV Infections, Zero Discrimination, Zero AIDS-related Deaths
From the Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Michel Sidibé.
On this World AIDS Day we can be proud:
Globally, we have reduced the number of new HIV infections and deaths by nearly 20%.
This means less people ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), on Tuesday hosted a seminar, on the National HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy, for workers of Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam). In the Regional Boardroom at Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
St. Stanislaus defeats 11 other schools in debate
THE Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) HIV/AIDS Programme hosted an Inter-School Impromptu Speaking Competition yesterday, at its Eve Leary, Kingston, Georgetown headquarters, in observance of World AIDS Day 2010.
The occasion is celebrated globally on December 1 and it marked the start ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
Written by By Thomas Pierce, Charge d'Affaires US Embassy in Georgetown
WORLD AIDS Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of celebration. We must all remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS. It’s in their honour that we work each day to provide HIV ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
EIGHT hundred primary and secondary schoolchildren, together with staff of the Education Ministry and other stakeholders, are to participate in an activity on the National Cultural Centre (NCC) tarmac to mark World AIDS Day, December 1.
HIV/AIDS Focal Point within the Ministry, Ms. Janelle Sweatnam, said the December ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
UNAIDS Global AIDS Report 2010
A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), released last Thursday, shows that the AIDS epidemic is beginning to change course, as the number of people newly infected with HIV is declining and AIDS-related deaths are decreasing. According to the ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
Ramsammy commends GDF on significant HIV/AIDS fight contribution
THE Guyana Defence Force (GDF), continuing its 45th anniversary observances, hosted its annual HIV/AIDS Health Fair, on Thursday, at the Drill Square, Base Camp Ayanganna, Georgetown.
The staging was because the Army considers itself part of the wider effort to fight the ...
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Source: Guyana Chronicle
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten, – Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has told the region that there is no room for complacency in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Delivering the feature address at the opening ceremony of the 10th Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) Annual General Meeting ...
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