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PANCAP Pancaribbean Partnership against HIV AIDS

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Pancap SuccessPANCAP has succeeded in raising the political profile of AIDS in the Caribbean, mobilizing resources, establishing a culture for collaboration and coordination and creating an understanding about the Caribbean epidemic within the global context….. an international best practice.

UNAIDS Best Practice Series, 2004
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Scientists Discover and Target HIV’s Weak Spot “Super” antibodies known as abzymes can overcome one of HIV’s most clever methods of escaping the immune system, say the authors of a study published in the June 2008 issue of Autoimmunity Reviews and reported in Science Daily.

The antibodies that most people’s immune systems make are largely ineffective against HIV. Researchers have also had great difficulties developing a vaccine that produces human antibodies that can effectively combat the virus. One reason is that HIV’s outer coat—its envelope—easily changes shape, or mutates, and therefore eludes antibodies.
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In the Caribbean
HIV EXPERTS UNDERSCORE NATURAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE RESPONSE TO AIDS AND EFFORTS TO EXPAND PRIMARY C Mexico City [7 August 2008] Speakers at the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) today underscored the importance of simultaneously scaling up AIDS programmes and strengthening health systems in poor count...
World
Drug Access | Uganda's Health Ministry Orders $1.8M Worth of Antiretrovirals To Address Drug Shortag Uganda's Ministry of Health is expecting a batch of antiretroviral drugs to "arrive any time," Sam Zaramba, director-general of health services, announced on Tuesday following a drug shortage confirmed...
 
HIV/AIDS Education
"Education is at the core of the fight against HIV/AIDS" 8 August, 2008 Interview with Lois Hue, 8 August, Mexico City Deputy Director General of the Jamaican Red Cross and Manager of the HIV and AIDS Programme What is the situation on HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean?...
Health
Ramsammy spells out improvements in health care delivery Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, yesterday refuted claims made by the opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) that portrayed the Health Sector in a state of disarray. The PNCR allegedly made ...
 
Education
Image Call to intensify HIV prevention AIDS experts estimate expanded HIV prevention could avert 30 million HIV infections by 2015. In a new report released on HIV prevention, a panel of leading AIDS experts calls for a major increase in global HIV preve...
 
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