Caribbean countries are well poised to respond to the challenges in sustaining the HIV response in the region, PANCAP Director Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland said at the XII International AIDS Confer-ence (IAC) in Washington, DC.
Bynoe-Sutherland was at the time addressing a session on the sustainability of the Caribbean Region’s HIV response at the IAC held from July 22-27, a press release from the Caricom Secretariat said. The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) Director brought into focus the reality faced by the region saying, “although we are mostly lower and upper middle income states we are highly indebted and do not have the fiscal flexibility that international development partners perceive and promote.”
Reflecting on the region’s historical development as a people, the director called on economic theorists and development planners to reshape the international development discourse. She reminded the
