Chief of Party for the USAID Advancing Partnerships and Communities (APC) Folami Harris said yesterday that she believes Guyana is ready to take up the reins of fully providing HIV treatment, care and support as the US-funded PEPFAR programme, which has been in effect here for ten years, phases out.
Harris was one of three speakers at the opening of a Children’s Rights Workshop yesterday, organised by the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) with support from the APC. The workshop as aimed at building the capacity of civil society providers who serve orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) affected by HIV as they shift from private to state services for treatment, care and support.
Speaking to Stabroek News following the opening, Harris said that while in 2014 the treatment programme serviced 819 children and 889 adults,
