ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The nation would soon have access to software capable of measuring the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programmes. AIDS Secretariat Programme Manager Delcora Williams said the web-based programme, Spectrum, would soon be used on island to assist in accurately assessing various cos ...

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Antigua St. John’s - Talks are in the advanced stage to mobilise “key policy gatekeepers” to expand and strengthen HIV/AIDS response in Antigua & Barbuda and the wider Eastern Caribbean. Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Transformation Senator Malaka Parker and S ...

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A workshop to strengthen national institutions and civil society organizations to address and prevent gender based violence including sexual violence and HIV transmission will be held September 4-6, 2012, in Antigua and Barbuda.   Participants  drawn from UNFPA’s strategic partners UN W ...

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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Founder and Director of the Antigua & Barbuda HIV/AIDS Network said more needs to be done to get and keep HIV/AIDS patients on a treatment regimen where they can be educated on how to suppress the virus. While speaking on the Big Issues programme yesterday, Eleanor Fre ...

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St. John’s Antigua- Policymakers must be approached with evidence-based advocacy to create even greater political will in the fight against AIDS, advised regional coordinator of the Caribbean Regional Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS (CRN+), Yolande Simon on Wednesday. She was referrin ...

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Antigua St. Johns - A combination of lifestyle, cultural and behavioural changes is what’s required to break the chain of transmission and social stigma attached to HIV/AIDS. Those sentiments were echoed and re-echoed throughout the fifth launch of the annual Regional HIV Testing Day held at Scot ...

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Antigua St John's - Leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean took time out to review past progress and plan for the future as a three-day meeting hosted by the United States’ President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) opened on Tuesday. Speaking at the portfolio revie ...

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Antigua St john's - The time has come for Antigua and Barbuda and the rest of the Caribbean to realize and accept that HIV/AIDS is not a problem, but a reality; and that is an illness rather than the moral condemnation that some communities have reduced it to. The time has also come to break the m ...

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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Following a landmark Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel recommendation last week to fast-track the HIV prevention treatment drug, Truvada, an infectious disease specialist on island said it might not be the cure for Antigua & Barbuda’s HIV/AIDS woes –  ...

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National statistics in Antigua and Barbuda suggest that despite increasing levels of education and knowledge regarding the mode of HIV transmission, sexual behaviours have not changed drastically. According to Antigua and Barbuda’s Global AIDS Progress Report for January 2010-December 2011, “the ...

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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL), Senator David Massiah is urging trade unions to lead the fight against discrimination and stigma associated with people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS in the workplace. “We think it is a problem that you have to look ...

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ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Scores of walkers turned out Saturday to lend support to the third annual Antigua & Barbuda HIV/AIDS Network’s (ABHAN) AIDS Walk, under the theme “Stop AIDS. Start Walking.” Over 150 persons joined the effort to bring awareness to the issues of HIV/AIDS in Antigu ...

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  In 2010, CARISMA commissioned a study of the condom market in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), Saint Maarten and selected countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) - Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The study w ...

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  The Best Practices in Social Marketing series aims to share learning from CARISMA with other regional and international Social Marketing Organisations (SMOs) and their partners in government and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Under CARISMA, ideas have been generated and lessons le ...

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Status at a glance The national response to the HIV epidemic in Antigua and Barbuda has been led by the Ministry of Health (MOH) since the first diagnosis of HIV in 1985 through a now defunct National AIDS Committee and subsequently through the AIDS Secretariat established in 1992. The National AIDS ...

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