Healthcare

Nevis Department of Social Services More Efficient

Nevis Health Minister - Hensley Daniel

Nevis Health Minister – Hensley Daniel

Charlestown, Nevis
April 18, 2008

The Minister with responsibility for Social Transformation on Nevis Hon. Hensley Daniel in a recent announcement, disclosed that the Department of Social Services had cut spending as a result of greater efficiency and effectiveness. This he attributed to restructuring over the last year which had had also brought about increased collaboration and corporation.
 
Mr. Daniel explained at a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly on April 15, 2008, that the Department had moved from a situation in May of 1998 in the words of a local newspaper “the community of Nevis leads in community development” to a significant reduction in the number of programmes by 2006.
 
The Administration’s task, he said therefore, was to restructure the Department and reintroduce the programmes.
 
There are now four Units in the Department of Social Services, a Youth Division, The Gender relations Unit and the Senior Citizens Division.

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Nevis Health Minister Calls For Public’s Support

Nevis Health Minister - Hensley Daniel

Nevis Health Minister – Hensley Daniel

Charlestown, Nevis
April 18, 2008

Minister of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel urged the Nevis public to give full support to the programmes of the HIV/AIDS Unit on the island given the social and economic cost of the disease.
 
The Minister was at the time addressing the situating with regard to HIV/AIDS on Nevis during a sitting of the Nevis Island Assembly in Charlestown on April 15, 2008.
 
He said the disease required continue efforts at the school, family and community level and as such it was of absolute importance that he brought the matter to the attention of the general public, given the impact HIV/AIDS had on the population and it’s potential to destroy the social and economic fabric of the society.
 
“The challenge we have in this small country is that the strong socio cultural norms continue to drive the epidemic. These norms continue to allow for the early sexual debut and multi sexual partners. As such the HIV/AIDS Unit has developed the ABC approach ““ Abstinence, behaviour change and Condom Use.

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UK Gives US$1.2 Million Grant To PANCAP

PANCAP Meeting Members

PANCAP Meeting Members
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
April 17, 2008 (CUOPM)

The United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID) is pumping US$1.2 million into the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP).

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Wednesday between St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) Representative, Jane Armstrong, during the Opening Ceremony of the 10th Meeting of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism of the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) at the Royal St. Kitts Hotel and Casino.

The grant of £600,000 (about US$1.2 million) to PANCAP is to support its core budget until June 2009.

“This contribution by DFID represents the first practical commitment to the principle of pooled funding that PANCAP has advocated for some time now; and we applaud DFID for this pioneering effort,” said Prime Minister Douglas when he delivered the feature address.

Dr. Douglas used the opportunity to place on record his personal thanks and those of his colleague Prime Ministers to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the European Union (EU), German Development Bank, The Global Fund, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), United States Government and the World Bank for the funding support provided through PANCAP since its birth in 2001.

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St. Kitts – Nevis Design Contest For HIV Pin

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis April 10, 2008 (SKNIS) The National Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (NACHA) is inviting all primary and high school students of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis to take part in a pin design competition.  …

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Nevis Sanitation Workers Honored On World Health Day

Charlestown, Nevis
April, 8, 2008

Several Health Workers on Nevis were honored for their contribution to health services during an Award Ceremony on World Health Day Monday, April 7, 2008 at the Nevis Red Cross Center. Minister of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel said the event was the Ministry’s way of showing appreciation for the important contribution of the workers and to raise their profile.
 
Minister Daniel said the private sector has a role to play to honor sanitation workers and help to manage garbage generated by them. He also added the Ministry expected the private and public sector cooperation.

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