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OECS HAPU calls for enhanced strategies to attract persons living with HIV/AIDS for Treatment.

Head of the OECS Secretariat’s HIV AIDS Project Unit (OECS HAPU), Dr. James St. Catherine, says the Unit’s service to OECS Member States in tackling HIV and AIDS has yielded successes in many areas.

However he adds that there is still significant room for improvement in aspects such as getting people to know their HIV status, treatment compliance, capacity to monitoring the safety and effectiveness of treatment, and the human resource and infrastructural support for dealing with cases of HIV and AIDS.

via OECS HAPU calls for enhanced strategies to attract persons living with HIV/AIDS for Treatment..

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US providing millions to help Caribbean deal with HIV/AIDS

The United States is providing nearly US$100 million over a five year period to help Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean to combat the spread of the deadly HIV/AIDS virus.

via STORY OF INTEREST: US providing millions to help Caribbean deal with HIV/AIDS | Antigua Daily News: Antigua News Every Day.

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Public health, a powerful tool for a safer and durable world

Mirta Roses, director, Pan American Health Organization, interview with the Harvard College Global Health Review (HCGHR).

via OPS, un Equipo, una Meta: La Salud de las Américas: Public health, a powerful tool for a safer and durable world.

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PANCAP and the HIV/AIDS challenge in the Caribbean

Discrimination, including the flouting of the most basic widespread human rights, is still widespread for those living with HIV/AIDS.

And while we have seen real progress across the board, five more people still contract the virus for every two who start treatment.

Despite the tremendous efforts of PANCAP, the Caribbean has not been spared.

Indeed, with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, the region faces the greatest HIV/AIDS challenge.

via PANCAP and the HIV/AIDS challenge in the Caribbean – Stabroek News – Guyana.

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Caribbean ignoring “Aids rights”

Countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) have a long way to go in responding to the human rights challenges posed by HIV/Aids.

That is the gist of messages to mark World Aids Day 2010, whose theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights”.

“We have for the most part focused on bio-medical responses to the exclusion of the socio-economic and legal responses required to prevent the risk of HIV to our most-at-risk communities,” the Caricom secretariat said.

via BBCCaribbean.com | Caribbean ignoring “Aids rights”.