Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis and incoming Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr Denzil Douglas says the regional body has made significant strides in the fight against HIV and AIDS, besides other solid achievements in the health sector.
And he notes also that PANCAP (Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS), which has been acclaimed an international best practice by the United Nations, has mobilised critical resources to coordinate successfully the region’s response to HIV and AIDS and could now boast a score card of significant reduction in the mortality rate, increased access to treatment and care by more than 50% of people living with AIDS and a remarkable decrease in the prevalence rate of HIV infections, according to a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.
Prime Minister Douglas, who has lead responsibility for Human Resource Development, Health and HIV/AIDS in the Quasi-cabinet of the CARICOM Conference of
