As the Jamaica Business Council on HIV/AIDS (JABCHA) fine-tunes plans to set up a national foundation for HIV/AIDS, its executive director, Earl Moore, has warned that the country’s business sector is in for big trouble if companies continue to undermine initiatives to tackle the infection.
via Jamaica Gleaner News – Dire problems – Business – Monday | December 6, 2010.
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.
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.
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