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The Fifth Pan Caribbean Business Coalition Forum on HIV/AIDS opened yesterday at the Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown. Under the theme “Caribbean Business Leadership: A Holistic Wellness Approach beyond HIV”, the forum recognised the indispensable role of the business community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.The aim of the two-day gathering of Caribbean business leaders is to enhance the understanding of the various stakeholders in response to the scourge. Participants focused on the multi-sectoral response to the disease by governments, businesses, and persons living with HIV/AIDS.The meeting also sought to strengthen the partnership between the Regional Insurance Industry and the Pan Caribbean Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS.Chairperson of the regional organisation, Douglas Camacho, during the opening ceremony of the meeting, noted that the business community in the Caribbean has taken on the responsibility over the last couple of years, of having a collective and holistic approach to the treatment of persons living with HIV/AIDS.He pointed out that this input is most valuable not only from a medical perspective, but is also valuable for its responsibility as a collector of funds, and as a producer of goods and services. He stated that,jerseys from china, “Business leaders have a responsibility and obligation as part of the societies where they live, to ensure that some of the discrimination, lack of knowledge, awareness and ignorance is eradicated.”Noting that there has been much talk about legislation targeting the discrimination of persons living with HIV/AIDS,NFL Jerseys China, Camacho also urged the business leaders to come out of the meeting with concrete solutions and clear deadlines. He encouraged the participants to take the decisions back to their own countries, and act as an effective lobby to ensure that they are put in motion.Observing that in many countries, legislative agendas are driven by matters considered more important than HIV/AIDS, he urged the businessmen to use their influence to ensure that the political directorate in their countries put on the agenda,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, at least some of the things to be accomplished.United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy on HIV to the Caribbean, Sir George Alleyne, stated that business involvement is important not only because of the value of their corporate social responsibility, but HIV has the potential of affecting the very reason for the existence of the business sector.In his address to the forum, Sir George asserted that there is a major role for businesses in assisting national programmes with the kind of expertise they have in the various areas. He pointed out that the Caribbean has been fortunate that, “there has not been the catastrophic impact on our economies that was projected at the onset of the epidemic.”Sir George explained that this was because of the valiant efforts of many persons and institutions to control it, to measure and advise. He publicly thanked and congratulated Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, for his work nationally, regionally and internationally.“He has been a true champion for the cause of HIV/AIDS, and he has shown what determined and persistent efforts can achieve.”As he outlined the global statistics,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Sir George noted that more persons are living with HIV/AIDS in the world today. There are just over 33 million HIV-positive persons worldwide – 2.1 million of them are children less than 15 years of age. This, it was noted, is because HIV-infected persons are living longer as a result of effective therapy. AIDS-related deaths have declined by 10% over the past 10 years and it is estimated that at least 3 million people have been saved since effective therapy became available in 1996. Globally, the spread appears to have peaked in that year.Pointing to the success in HIV prevention, Sir George stated that lowering the death rate has led to the increased amount of persons living with HIV/AIDS. This in turn has lead to increased risk among key populations.“It is pellucid that programmes to prevent new infections among those populations are extremely important part of the national AIDS response,” he declared.He also made it clear that since there is no immediate prospect of a vaccine – success therefore has to be measured in the achievement of less ambitious and often partial goals. The failure to produce the vaccine must not weaken the resolve to apply those prevention methods which are effective in combination.He pointed out that there are still countries, including a majority of the Caribbean ones, in which there is criminalisation of the population affected by HIV/AIDS, and this should be addressed.Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, in the feature address, stated that in the Caribbean more than 90% of the persons who should be receiving treatment are receiving treatment for the prevention of the disease, and their survival rate has increased.In Guyana,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the role has moved from reduction of mother-to-child transmission to the elimination of mother-to-child transmission by 2015. In fact most of the Caribbean has seen prevalence rates decline.Nevertheless,China Jerseys NFL, he urged that such encouraging news should not be used by the region to ease their determination to fight HIV/AIDS, since danger still lurks.He pointed out the looming threat caused by wobbling of the global success in raising financial resources. In this decreased flow of financial resources, the Caribbean countries are particularly impacted, Prime Minister Hinds said. He observed that the region’s improved economic standings must not be weapons to be used against them in the fight against a common enemy.Hinds emphasised that business coalition is critical to the region,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, but will not be established to compete with national authorities for limited funds.“The business coalition was established to help in the mobilisation of new and additional resources.”