PANCAP’s 13th AGM set for Guadeloupe next month

Deborah L Birx

More than 100 ministers of health, national AIDS programme managers, ambassadors and representatives from non-governmental organisations and civil society will convene in Guadeloupe next month for the 13th Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP).

According to a press release, the November 3 opening will see a virtual address by seventh UN Secretary General Kofi Annan via video, while Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator of the United States Government activities to combat HIV/AIDS globally, Dr Deborah L Birx will be the key note speaker.

The AGM is being convened under the theme, ‘Positioning the Partnership for Post-2015’,