Haiti’s health minister urges PANCAP to strengthen HIV/AIDS support

Haiti’s Minister of Health and Chair of the Executive Board Dr Florence Duperval Guillaume has urged members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) to strengthen and accelerate coordination efforts to that nation as it progresses in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Dr Guillaume made this appeal in her address at the Official Opening of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Executive Board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership (PANCAP) on Wednesday, in Port–au–Prince, Haiti, a press statement from the Caricom Secretariat said.

Alluding to the effects of global developments on the Caribbean’s ability to maintain its response, the minister noted that PANCAP is a collective based on goodwill “[and] despite the