Archive for July, 2009
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
THE Ministry Of Health, in collaboration with the Guyana Safe Injection Project (GSIP), on Wednesday, started the injection safety and waste management practice in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) at Suddie Public Hospital on Essequibo Coast.
It is part of the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), intended to improve ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Source: Stabroek News
-Ramsammy urges religious leaders as World AIDS Day launched
Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said yesterday that Guyana’s HIV/AIDS progress continues to be hindered by persons living in denial of being at risk and he called on religious leaders to preach condom use.
Still emotional over the fire that wrecked ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Source: The Guyana Chronicle
THE second phase of the Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction and Prevention Programme (GHARP II) was inaugurated last Friday at the Lot 266 Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown office.
New GHARP II Chief of Party, Ms. Silvia Gurrola Bonilla, who addressed a press conference ahead of the formalities, said it would ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Source: Stabroek News
The National Public Health Institute (NPHI) which serves as the nucleus of national laboratory services and does advanced laboratory testing and comprehensive clinical care under one roof marked its first anniversary last Friday.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) stated in a press release that the institute has improved health ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Source: The Guyana Chronicle
-donates entire collection to National Library
Executive Director of Merundoi, Ms. Margaret Lawrence (fourth left) hands over the collection of Merundoi episodes on CD to Chief Librarian of the National Library, Ms. Gillian Thompson (third right). Also in picture are employees of the Merundoi organization and the National ...
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Source: Stabroek News
–as GHARP 2 launched
Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says he will not allow international partners who join the national effort aimed at preventing HIV infections, to create parallel programmes that cannot be sustained when they pull out of the country because “he has seen it happen before ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Source: Guyana Chronicle
THE Caribbean Community’s response to tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic came in for high praise from United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region, Sir George Alleyne, during the recently concluded 30th Heads of Government meeting.
Speaking with reporters last Friday at the Liliendaal Conference Centre, where the ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
New Delhi,—The Delhi High Court in India last Wednesday annulled a 150-year-old law criminalising “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” commonly known as Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The court declared that section 377 of Indian Penal Code violated Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Source: Guyana Chronicle
ONE hundred and eleven trained individuals joined the health sector resource cluster, on Tuesday, certified to function as counsellors/testers at Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) sites.
Cross Section of the recently certified Counsellor/ Testers.
From across the 10 Administrative Regions, they all graduated at a VCT certification ceremony in ...
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