Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 24th, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
'Don't dis me' is the name under which the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention (GHARP) Project has launched its HIV stigma and discrimination campaign.
A song of the same name, written and performed by Dallas Forte, a young upcoming musician, and a music video to go along with it ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
STIGMA and discrimination are among the factors fuelling HIV/AIDS in Guyana, since many who may need life prolonging antiretroviral rugs are not coming forward to accept the free treatment or get tested for fear of what others might think or say about their lifestyle.
That’s generally accepted and it ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
Last Sunday's Dinner Presentation at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel in recognition of the USAID/GHARP/ Private Sector partnership against HIV/AIDS broke new ground in the national effort to tackle the dreaded disease as a workplace phenomenon.
We may, as yet, have no barometer with which to measure the impact ...
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
Director of Technical Services of the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (GHARP) Dr. Jomo Osborne has told Stabroek Business that the local private sector has, in recent times, become more seized of the implications of HIV/AIDS for the viability of business in Guyana.
Dr. Osborne, who is directly ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) launched a US$35M plan in Georgetown yesterday to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
But Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said Guyana will be way ahead of the plan with this country poised to offer universal access to treatment, care ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has earmarked US$35M for its Regional HIV/AIDS STI plan, 2006 to 2015.
The plan, launched yesterday at the Hotel Tower, is designed to improve the health sector's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the specified period.
Some of the programmes to benefit are HIV/AIDS ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Source: Stabroek News
If at any time two international stars could come together on a local stage in the name of a cause and draw a mammoth crowd, last Saturday's "Don't Dis Me" concert, which launched the HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination reduction campaign was it.
Barbadian superstar, Rupee and Trinidadian chutney king, ...
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Sunday, December 18th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
APPEALING to the transformation a caterpillar makes into a butterfly, President Bharrat Jagdeo last evening launched a massive anti-discrimination campaign against people living with HIV/AIDS, calling for a change of attitudes towards the some 18,000 with the disease here.
Stigma and discrimination are among the factors fuelling HIV/AIDS in ...
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (GHARP), in collaboration with Friends of St Francis, have launched three new programmes, at Corriverton, Mibicuri in Black Bush Polder and Rose Hall town, at Corentyne, Berbice.
At the Rose Hall launching ceremony, in ...
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Monday, December 12th, 2005
Source: Guyana Chronicle
MINISTER of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday officially unveiled an HIV/AIDS website created by his ministry, as part of the national campaign against the pandemic.
At the function at the Umana Yana, in Kingston, Georgetown, he said the website targets the general public, health professionals, the news media, partners ...
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