Gov’t not addressing health issues hampering HIV fight

The National AIDS Committee (NAC) has taken the government to task over what it sees as the administration’s failure to date to address public health issues which have hampered the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The NAC, in a statement on Wednesday assessing the recently-released 2012 Guyana HIV/AIDS Report, noted that the report “reflected more an official view of the programme to combat HIV/AIDS which suggests steady progress in controlling the spread of the virus, adequate coverage of drug availability to HIV-infected persons and shows advances in ‘the threat posed by HIV to the status of ‘chronic’ rather than ‘curable’.”

These developments provide the evidence for supporting the goal of normalising the response to HIV into