Nevis

Nevis Island HIV/AIDS Testing Policy

Nevis Island's HIV/AIDS VCT Policy

Daniel Holds Nevis Island’s HIV/AIDS VCT Policy

Charlestown, Nevis
December 17, 2008

Minister of Health in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Hon. Hensley Daniel along with the HIV/AIDS unit today conducted Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) sessions for the second time this year to residents of Nevis.

In an interview at his office, the Health Minister gave an overview of the event.

“Here in St. Kitts and Nevis, the purpose of the policy is to standardize the procedural and ethical conditions under which testing for HIV can occur in St. Kitts and Nevis,” he said.

Minister Daniel spoke of the many goals of VCT which included implementing coping and acceptance strategies, promoting planning for future orphan care and preparation, reducing mother to child transmission, normalizing HIV/AIDS and reducing stigma, facilitating referral to social and peer support, enabling preventive therapy and contraceptive advice and promoting early management of opportunistic infections and sexually transmitted infections.

Read More

Premier Parry Welcomes International Resort to Nevis

Mr. and Mrs. Deon Daniel Of Nelson Springs Charlestown,Nevis December 15th, 2008 Premier and Minister of Tourism in Nevis, the Hon. Joseph Parry, said the Elite Island Resort-Nevis experience will please the high-end visitor with the newly inducted Nelson Spring …

Read More

Nevis Citizens Urged To Know Their HIV/ADS Status

Nadine Carty Caines – HIV Coordinator Charlestown, Nevis Decemeber 15, 2008 Residents of Nevis are urged by the Nevis HIV/AIDS Coordinating Unit to find out their status. A Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Day will take place on Wednesday, December …

Read More

St. Kitts – Nevis Calls For “An Attitude Change”

St. Kitts - Nevis National Flag

Federation Govt. Seeks Help In Stopping Crime

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
December 14, 2008 (CUOPM)

A passionate appeal from St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas to all sectors of the community  set new standards and chart a course away from gun and gang violence.

Speaking at the opening session of a National Consultation on Crime on Friday, Prime Minister Douglas challenged his own ministers of government, public servants, entertainers, religious leaders, journalists, businessmen, parents and the youth to create an era of new behavioral, attitudinal, and societal standards, so that a much more humane, a much more self-respecting, more stable and safe existence could be shared by all.

“Today, I would like today to throw out the idea that gun and gang crime may indeed have everything to do with all of us.  Because if we truly want to stop having to lament and wring our hands, if we want to begin making real headway, we are all going to have to bring keen powers of discernment to this problem.  We are all going to have to insist on bold new behaviours and standards ““ standards ““ on how we rear our own children”¦”¦what we instill in them”¦”¦.how they interact with each other”¦..how we conduct ourselves”¦”¦.how we live together as a people – because crime does not exist in a vacuum”¦..it grows out of the society in which it is found,” said Dr. Douglas to some 250 participants and thousands of listeners via several radio stations.

“As a society, we are going to have to come at gang and gun crime backwards..sideways and every other way that holds even the slightest promise of denting, cracking and eventually breaking whatever habits, behaviours, and practices – large or small – create, first in little ways, then in larger ways, the wayward, don’t-care attitudes and behaviors that later morph into the mindless brutality that we have all witnessed as a people of late,” said Dr. Douglas.

Read More