Archive for April, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
By November this year Guyana is expected to be able to test newborn babies for HIV instead of waiting until the child is 18 months old, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said recently.
He said this means if the baby is infected treatment can be started ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
By November this year Guyana is expected to be able to test newborn babies for HIV instead of waiting until the child is 18 months old, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy said recently.
He said this means if the baby is infected treatment can be started ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
Ending discrimination against HIV infected persons in the workplace and promoting behaviour change were the issues at focus at a Banks DIH, Guyana Rice Develop-ment Board (GRDB) and General Workers Union (GWU) seminar on Tuesday.
The one-day seminar, held at the Banks DIH Conference room, saw the ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
More than 12,000 workers in the private sector have been sensitized to HIV/AIDS as a workplace issue through the United States-funded Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction Project (GHARP) and the local private sector is to intensify its collaboration with the project this year to ensure that more private ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAS) will soon be receiving nutritional support from hampers supplied by the Food Bank located in the recently refurbished $2.2M National AIDS Secretariat Programme (NAPS) building.
According to Manager of the Food Bank, Somdatt Ramessar, the bank will be operating through a referral ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Source: Guyana Chronicle
The Ministry of Health yesterday officially declared open the new home of its National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), at the corner of Hadfield and College Road in Georgetown.
The building standing resplendent on the plot of land where once stood a tiny wooden building housing the Secretariat with ...
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Saturday, April 14th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
"HIV/AIDS touches everyone directly or indirectly," Minis-ter within the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said at a meeting the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) hosted for its senior managers.
The GRA has a policy on the prevention of discrimination against staff living and working with the infection ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
Guyana will not benefit from the recent slashing of the cost of a key HIV/AIDS drug by more than half in 40 poor countries, as announced by a US-based company, because it is already accessing the same drug very cheaply, Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy ...
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Friday, April 6th, 2007
Source: Stabroek News
If cricket icon Clive Lloyd does not achieve the same measure of success in the fight against stigma and discrimination regarding people living with HIV and AIDS as he did when he led the West Indies (WI) cricket team several years ago to two consecutive World ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE legendary Clive Lloyd yesterday joined the list of “Champions for Change” fighting stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS even as he fights to see the West Indies make it to the semi-finals of Cricket World Cup (CWC), albeit saying “let’s hope God smiles on ...
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