Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) on Thursday launched a Cdn$1.6M initiative -- Fight AIDS through Training and Education (FATE) -- in 12 Caribbean countries at the end of an HIV/AIDS-related workshop here which concluded the very day.
Among those countries in which the programme will be pioneered are ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
“Guyana is not prepared to succumb to HIV and we will do all in our power to prevent new infections. The goal remains that no new child will be born into this world with HIV. We will prevent HIV. So I challenge all leaders in Guyana to ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
Head of the UNAIDS office in Guyana, Dr Ruben del Prado yesterday said that it was “scandalous” that the access-to-medicine campaign worldwide was not matched by an access-to-prevention campaign and in the last few years the latter had been marginalised while treatment had dominated.
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And for prevention ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
MINISTER of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, has described the foreign aided Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS programme as a success story that has seen remarkable achievements.
In an interview with the Guyana Chronicle, he said, prior to 2001, 35 per cent of HIV positive ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
Lifeline Counselling Services recently became one of only two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Georgetown to receive funding from USAID for its Orphans and Vulner-able Children (OVC) programme and could now cater for some 300 children, according to Executive Director Carlotta Williams.
Speaking to Stabroek News recently, Williams explained that ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
By the end of this month the new reference laboratory handed over to the Guyana Government recently, is expected to open its doors and some of its important functions would be testing for the HIV virus in infants under 18 months and research and surveillance, according to its ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
The XVII International AIDS Conference got underway in Mexico City on Saturday, with UNAIDS Executive Director, Dr Peter Piot urging the global community not to give up the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Alluding to the words of legendary Caribbean, artist Bob Marley, Dr Piot made a passionate plea to ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
Guyana could face a major public health crisis as drug resistant strains of the HIV virus and tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise, Head of the Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic (GUM) Dr Jagernauth Ragnauth says.
In an exclusive interview with Stabroek News, Dr Ragnauth said he has already seen evidence ...
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