New Chair and Vice Chair elected to PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group..

(PANCAP Coordinating Unit Press Release): The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) has extended congratulations to the new Chair and Vice Chair of the PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group.

A press release from the PANCAP Coordinating Unit said Mr. Roger
McLean and Dr. Gail Gajadhar were elected Chair and Vice-Chair
respectively of the PANCAP-CVC-COIN Technical Advisory Group for the
Multi-Country Caribbean Global Fund Grant QRA-H-CARICOM 1838 titled
“Sustainability of services for Key Populations in the Caribbean”.

Mr. McLean is a Research Fellow/Lecturer HEU, the Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Dr Gajadhar is the Senior Medical Officer, Infectious Diseases Unit, The Department of Health and Wellness in Saint Lucia.

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is a regional, multi-sectoral body
with a mandate to provide oversight to the PANCAP/CVC/COIN Global Fund
Grant. That oversight includes ensuring that the implementation of the
grant is focused, efficient and flexible, i.e. the TAG ensures that the
execution is focused on the right activities, for the right populations
and in the right places, in accordance with the performance framework of
the PANCAP/CVC/COIN Global Fund Grant. The TAG also ensures that there
is efficient use of available resources.

In addition to the election of the new Chair and Vice-Chair, the TAG
conducted an orientation of members on governance, oversight functions,
management of conflicts of interest, and internal and external
communication as well as a reviewing and endorsing of its oversight role
and communications plan.

The success of the grant is critical to the Region achieving the
90-90-90 Targets as its objectives are aligned with PANCAP’s vision of
an AIDS-free Caribbean.