Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
A survey commissioned to identify factors that influence women's access to and treatment in the HIV/AIDS Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme in Georgetown has been completed and one problem is the late arrival at the labour room.
The study found that many women are opting ...
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) on Tuesday held a blood donation drive at the United States (US) Embassy auditorium for workers of all US government agencies in Guyana.
The GRCS, in collaboration with the embassy, the Centers for Disease Control Global AIDS Programme and the National Blood ...
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
At one time the estimated 18,000 persons living with HIV and AIDS in Guyana were told how to eat healthy, how to take their medication and how to deal with stigma and discrimination.
But they were never really assisted in any tangible way to become breadwinners for themselves ...
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
The 2006 UNAIDS Report on the Global Aids Epidemic is a sobering document. Sixty five million people have been infected with HIV/Aids; 25 million of these have already died. Every day brings 11,000 new infections and almost 8,000 deaths. And yet, the report notes, "in many ways ...
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
The future strategy of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) must place emphasis on universal access to prevention, care and treatment and sensitive issues must be faced head-on, officials at the Caribbean Gathering of the HIV/AIDS conference in Canada heard.
A press release from the Caribbean Community ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Source: Guyana Chronicle
FOR Dmitri Nicholson, who talks safe sex to interior youths who cannot access Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) and shares condoms in mining camps to sex workers and miners alike, AIDS 2006 is a chance to give a voice to Guyanese youths and to seek partnerships for his work.
Dmitri ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE next big breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS could be gels, creams or a pill that women can use to block infection, Bill and Melinda Gates, who have pumped millions of dollars into research, said at the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference here Sunday ...
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Monday, August 14th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
The Caribbean Regional Network (CRN+) of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) is participating at the XVI International AIDS Conference from August 13-18 in Canada.
A press release from the organisation said a delegation comprising more than 50 CRN+ members and technical staff will participate under the theme 'Making ...
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Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Source: Guyana Chronicle
EVERY day, more than three persons die of HIV/AIDS in Guyana, but stronger leadership in using funds together with changing anti-sodomy laws could help, says Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Peter Piot.
Piot, along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, this evening open ...
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Sunday, August 6th, 2006
Source: Stabroek News
Approximately seventy-four persons have died while on the anti-retroviral treatment programme at the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic since it commenced in 2002. The clinic is now seeking to establish the causes of death and the time-line, according to the clinic's head Dr Jagnauth Ragnauth.
Dr Ragnauth, who took ...
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