François-Xavier Bagnoud Center wraps activities in Guyana

(From left to right) USAID Mission Director Carol Horning, Minster of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy, FXB Country Director Nicole Jordan-Martin and FXB Principal Investigator Virginia Allred during the presentation of a plaque to the Ministry of Health.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center, of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, which has provided support services to seven of the nine HIV care and treatment sites throughout Guyana, will end its activities here at the end of next month.

The organization held its closing ceremony on Monday at the Cara Lodge Hotel Georgetown, where Country Director Nicole Jordan-Martin publicly thanked all participating stakeholders for the support given to them from its initiation in 2004, to the closure come September 30th, 2011.

Virginia Allred, Director of Global Products of the FXB Center and the Principal Investigator of FXB in