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- Challenging violence against women a key task for newly launched Caribbean Coalition on Women, Girls and AIDS
- Violence against women is increasing women and girls’ vulnerability to HIV in the Caribbean region. This is the stark message which emerged from the launch of the Caribbean Coalition on Women, Girls and AIDS (CCWA) hosted on 4 March by the UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team at the National Library, in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
- Sir George Alleyne: UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS
- The United Nations Special Envoys for HIV/AIDS are individuals specially selected by the UN Secretary-General to help advance the AIDS agenda in the regions they cover. In a series of interviews, we explore their motivation and commitment to ensuring that AIDS is kept high as a political priority within their respective regions of responsibility and operation.
- More prevention focus needed for the Caribbean to sharpen its response to HIV
- Those at highest risk of being infected by HIV in the Caribbean are not generally included at the heart of HIV prevention strategies. This is one of the conclusions of Keeping Score II, a publication launched by UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team recently in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Guyana launches national ‘faith-and-HIV’ coalition
- The National AIDS Programme Secretariat of the Ministry of Health in Guyana (NAPS/MOH) convened a National Conference on “faith-and-HIV,” supported by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on 11 December 2008. The aim of the conference was to establish a national coalition of faith leaders of all denominations in Guyana to address HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
- No room for complacency in the Caribbean challenge to HIV
- Gathering brings US Chiefs of Mission and regional partners together to discuss the myriad challenges and the way forward for the AIDS response in the Caribbean.
- Business coalitions from Latin America and the Caribbean gather in Brazil
- Business Coalitions on AIDS have emerged as an effective platform for the private sector response to the epidemic. UNAIDS and the Brazilian Business Council on HIV-AIDS Prevention recently convened a workshop of business coalitions and initiatives from Latin America and the Caribbean to recognize the role that the private sector play in the response to HIV and exchange experiences, challenges and opportunities.
- Disability and HIV in Jamaica
- To address the lack of inclusion of the disabled community in HIV-related public education, an innovative information and economic empowerment programme for people with disabilities is being implemented in Jamaica as part of the national response to HIV.
- Leaders pledge to promote sexual health to stop HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean
- At the conclusion of the 1st Meeting of Ministers of Education and Health to stop HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean, Ministers have signed an historic declaration committing to provide comprehensive sex education to adolescents and young people in the region.
- Women leading the AIDS response in Latin America
- The Coalition of First Ladies and Women Leaders of Latin America on Women and AIDS held its IV meeting in the Dominican Republic on 27 and 28 March 2008.
- Making a difference: Jamaica
- Continuing with the web special series “Making a difference”, which focuses on UNAIDS staff working in countries around the world, we take a look at Jamaica and talk to UNAIDS Country Coordinator, Miriam Maluwa on the daily challenges and rewards of working in this Caribbean country.
- PANCAP: AIDS in the long-term
- AIDS has become the “greatest leadership challenge to nations and regions”, the UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director UNAIDS Michel Sidibe at the 7th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), held in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados.
- Keeping Score: AIDS responses in the Caribbean
- To demonstrate commitments and progress made by countries in the Caribbean to addressing AIDS, and to highlight programming challenges , the CARICOM based Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) have launched a comprehensive report on national AIDS responses in the region.
- Haiti: UNAIDS strengthening partnerships to ‘make the money work’
- In Haiti, UNAIDS and the Fondation SOGEBANK – the Global Fund’s principal recipient in the country – kick off a series of initiatives to help develop a multi-sectoral AIDS response in the country with an event to encourage action from the business sector.
- AIDS events continue at World Cricket Cup
- As the remaining eight teams battle it out in the ICC Cricket World Cup, UNAIDS and partners continue to highlight the situation of children living with HIV in events in and around the championship.
- Cricket World Cup raises AIDS awareness
- Cricket’s biggest and most prestigious event will highlight the situation of children and young people living with and affected by HIV.
- Latin America and the Caribbean AIDS conference ends in El Salvador
- The III Latin America and the Caribbean Forum on HIV/AIDS/STDs and the IV Central American Congress on STD/HIV/AIDS took place in November with a gathering of Presidents and other leaders from the Central America region. Dr Piot represented UNAIDS at the Presidential Summit and addressed the conference closing plenary.