Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
The Guyana business coalition on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria was formally launched at the National Cultural Centre yesterday.
The importance and timeliness of the coalition was highlighted by the common thread that ran through the remarks of all the speakers at the event.
Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy who delivered ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
Often it is a glance or a whisper that creates an uneasy feeling. Sometimes it is something more blatant like a foul remark that underscores the thorny, cutting reality of homophobia in Guyana, and which has created setbacks in the national AIDS response.
There is rarely any open dialogue ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
The United States-funded Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (USAID/GHARP) has taken a important step towards consolidating its coalition with the local private sector to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis by announcing the launch of the new Guyana Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS.
What is perhaps most significant about the ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
A National Faith Coalition on HIV is to be established in Guyana following consensus reached among faith leaders at a roundtable held last week.
According to a press rlease from the United Nations Joint Pro-gramme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), faith leaders, while pledging to continue supporting and caring for people ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
The Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS will be formally launched as an independent organisation on Friday.
According to a press release from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) President Bharrat Jagdeo will officiate at the event along with ScotiaBank Country Director Amanda St Aubyn. The function ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
The second weekend of a Community Mobilisers’ HIV Project aimed at providing initial training for persons to become HIV/AIDS educators for the Family Planning Association of Guyana, gets underway today at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Building, Camp Road, Georgetown.
The four-day workshop which began last Saturday continued ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
Guyana is one of five Caribbean countries in which significant progress has been reported in the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Strategic HIV/AIDS Responses in Enterprises (SHARE) project.
According to a press release, an ILO report, which is to be released on Tuesday next, reveals that new programmes designed to ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
CLERICAL and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU) mounted a billboard at its Clerico House Headquarters, in Quamina Street, Georgetown, last May 1, to heighten its campaign against the direct impact of HIV/AIDS on the world of work.
The ceremony was themed ‘Fighting HIV/AIDS Together’ and a large group workers, decked ...
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