After five years and a US$1 million commitment the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling Guyana’s Centre of Excellence a success in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Dr Barbara Allen, CDC Country Director for Guyana said, “We can now state with assurance that there is no other place in Guyana that provides the same high level quality of inpatient care for HIV/AIDS infected patients”.
Dr Allen was addressing a small gathering at the closing ceremony of the five-year cooperative project at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) Resource Centre yesterday morning.
She said “it is estimated that there are approximately 6,000 people living with HIV here in Guyana…
