Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
Source:Guyana Chronicle
BRIDGETOWN--A Pan Caribbean Business Coalition on the HIV/AIDS pandemic is slated to be ceremonially launched this evening in Port-of-Spain.
Its inauguration comes amid deep concerns by the public and private sectors over the rising social and economic consequences for regional economies by this major killer disease.
The event coincides with the ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
CABINET has offered its ‘no objections’ to the awarding of several contracts, one of which entails the “emergency purchase” of a whopping $25.8M worth of Latex Condoms.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, yesterday said the condoms are for Guyana’s HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project that falls ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
A Regional HIV/AIDS Com-mittee was launched in Kato, Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) on Friday last.
Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Develop-ment, Harripersaud Nokta, addressing the launching, said that the Ministry of Local Government in collaboration with the Ministry of Health had set up various ministerial bodies to deal with ...
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Saturday, October 8th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
NINE overseas volunteer doctors have joined the fight in Guyana against the deadly HIV/AIDS disease under the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme in an historic international stint.
They yesterday formally began their attachment to the Health Ministry at a ceremony in Georgetown and will be deployed for the next ...
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