Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
The Guyana Defence Force’s HIV project, which is in its 13th month of operation, is focusing on enhancing strategies and intensifying efforts with regard to prevention programmes.
“The priority continues to be impacting the soldiers in such a way that there is significant behaviour change which results in abstinence ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
HABITAT for Humanity, in collaboration with USAID/GHARP, National AIDS Programme Secretariat, and Food for the Poor Guyana, has successfully conducted a Basic Building and Skills Training Programme with 15 persons infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.
In recognition of the accomplishment of the fifteen participants, a graduation ceremony was ...
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Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
MEMBERS of the Bartica branch of the Hope Foundation are young volunteers who are daily fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the pristine hinterland communities of Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).
With the help of the United States Agency for International Development - Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Project (USAID-GHARP), members ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE City Mall in Georgetown on Saturday saw the bubbling festivities that commemorated Merundoi’s 200th episode, which engaged Merundoi’s staff and volunteers as well as numerous bands of visitors to the shopping mall at Regent and Camp streets.
Along with a delectable fruit cake, a must for any ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
The Guyana Red Cross Society (GRCS) is increasing its HIV focus to include commercial sex workers among other vulnerable groups in an effort to scale-up its current work in the field.
By 2010 the GRCS hopes to double the amount of HIV/AIDS work it is now involved in following ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
A few years ago a close relative of Miriam Edwards was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and like so many other Guyanese, she discriminated against the relative in many ways even going so far as to prevent her children from eating food prepared by her.
Edwards did this despite the fact ...
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE 5th Annual Caribbean Cytometry and Analytical Society (CCAS) workshop held in the Surinamese capital, Paramaribo, last week ended on a high note, with delegates and trainers expressing satisfaction that the forum had recorded an incredible measure of success.
The purpose of the six-day caucus, held at the Torarica ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Source: Stabroek News
A recent gathering of persons living with HIV shared their “deepest emotional pain” over stigma and called for recognition of their diversity and the establishment by the government of a desk at which they can lodge complaints.
At a briefing on the forum, Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean ...
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