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Honourable Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, Sir George Alleyne, Dr the Honourable Douglas Slater, the Honourable Garth Thomas, Dr Peter Piot, Distinguished Guests:  The battle of stigma and discrimination cannot be fought by HIDING! Yet this is exactly what PLWHA continue to do. Not because many persons do not want to share their anxieties, fear and pain or seek support i.e.

First, let me congratulate Prime Minister Douglas, not only on his recent victory at the polls , but for having been the initiator of this high-level meeting to discuss the issue of stigma and discrimination as it relates to the situation in the Caribbean. As the person with the responsibility for the Health portfolio in CARICOM, he has been an indefatigable champion of the need for the Region as whole to seek solutions to our major health problems and not be party to a simple repetition of the litany of them which we know so well.

Speech by Gareth Thomas, U.K. Parliamentary-Under-Secretary of State For International Development to the UK/CARICOM Champions For Change Conference : Reduce Stigma AND Discrimination Against People Living With HIV/AIDS, 22-24 November 2004, St. Kitts & Nevis

Honourable Governor General of St Kitts and Nevis, Prime Minister, Sir George Alleyne, fellow Ministers and Parliamentarians, Ladies and Gentlemen……

On an official visit to Calcutta last year, I visited an AIDS clinic in the city's largest brothel.

I met there a stunningly beautiful woman who was HIV positive; She'd been working in the music industry on the fringes of Bollywood.

When her HIV status became known she lost her job, couldn't' find other work and had to go home to her parents and family in Calcutta.

Remarks by the Hon. Douglas Slater at the opening of the UK-CARICOM Champions for Change conference : REDUCE STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS, 22-24 NOVEMBER 2004, BASSETERRE,  St Kitts and Nevis

I welcome you to this meeting in my capacity as Chair of the Planning Committee and wish to let you know that it was my privilege to work with such a dedicated Team. On behalf of the Team I wish to acknowledge the role played by the Honourable Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis who initiated the idea of such a Conference at a Breakfast meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair who in turn fully supported the activity which manifested itself in the funding for the Conference and the collaboration and active participation by the DFID staff in this venture.

Caribbean Statisticians Examine Free Movement Database

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As 2004 races to a close, Regional Officials are redoubling their efforts to ensure that Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are adequately equipped with the necessary information tools for the 2005 implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). To this end, the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) was convened on Monday 22 November in Hamilton, Bermuda and will end on the 24 November 2004

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