HIV/AIDS

Thirty-Three Programme Planners and Health Care Service Providers Graduate from Clinical Management of HIV Programme

Forum to maximise Learning, Coordination and Synergies among recipients of Global Fund Multi-Country Grants

The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, will facilitate a “Joint Regional Dialogue among Key Stakeholders and Partners” of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) multi-country grant in Port-of-Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 13 – 15 September 2022.

Introduction

The Caribbean Social Marketing Project for HIV and AIDS prevention and Sexual health Promotion, known as CARISMA is now in its second phase.  It is a PANCAP project funded by the German Financial Cooperation through its development bank, KfW.   The Social Marketing Agency, Options is implementing the project on behalf of

Tuesday 10 September 2019 (PANCAP Coordinating Unit, CARICOM Secretariat): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, convened the Second joint regional dialogue with parliamentarians, faith leaders, civil society leaders, national AIDS programme managers and youth leaders in Port-of-Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on 10 September 2019.

The Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) 2014-2018 - the successor to the CRSF 2008-2012 - provides strategic direction and programmatic orientation for the members of PANCAP in their pursuit of universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services by 2018.

Since the inception of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV (PANCAP) in 2001, the Caribbean regional response to HIV has made significant strides. HIV prevalence has declined from 1.3 percent to one percent in 2012. New infections among children have been reduced by 52 percent over the same time period. Treatment coverage rates have dramatically improved with over 90 percent of HIV positive pregnant women receiving services to prevent mother-to-

It is often pointed out that the groups most vulnerable to HIV infection are men who have sex with men, sex workers and injecting drug users and that, as the epidemic spreads, females are more vulnerable than males. It is less often pointed out that large proportions of people in all of those categories are young and that more than half of the people newly infected with HIV each year are under the age of 25 (UNAIDS, 2006a; UNAIDS Inter-agency Task Team on Young People, 2006).

1. We, the Ministers of Education of the Caribbean Community, along with representatives of National AIDS Authorities, and other representatives of governments, organizations and agencies participating in the Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Education and HIV and AIDS in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 9-10June 2006;

2. Recall that the Nassau Declaration asserts that the Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region;

The Third Bi-annual Meeting of the Project Advisory Group (PAG) of the project for "Strengthening the Institutional Response to HIV/AIDS/STI in the Caribbean" was convened on Friday 26th October 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago. This three-year project is being supported financially from the resources of the 8th European Development Fund and executed by the CARICOM Secretariat. The implementing agencies are CAREC, CHRC, CRN+, UNAIDS and UWI.