Welcome to the official web site of the Turks & Caicos National AIDS Program (NAP). 

NAP is the central advisory, planning and policy-making body for a comprehensive and integrated HIV/AIDS prevention and control program in the Turks & Caicos Islands.   As a part of its overall public health mission, NAP provides national leadership in helping control and fight the HIV epidemic by working with community and international partners on research, prevention and treatment programs and creating an environment where people can effectively respond to the many challenges of HIV/AIDS.

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Turks and Caicos News
 
National HIV/AIDS/STI Multi-Sectoral Committee

The National AIDS Programme will be hosting its Second sitting of the National HIV/AIDS Multi-Sectoral Committee on the 7th July 2011, at the N.J.S Francis Building in Grand Turk, at 9:30 am.

The Multi-Sectoral Committee is an advisory coordinating body responsible for considering the more macro policy issues and strategies on the use of resources regarding HIV/AIDS in the TCI, and to determine a means forward.

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Turks and Caicos Islands Tourism Health and Wellness Intervention

The TCI Ministry of Health and Human Services through its National AIDS Programme, will join the Ministry of Tourism, Tourist Board and the Hotel and Tourism Association for a Press Conference on the 9th September, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. at the Regent Palms Resort, Providenciales, at which a Memorandum of Commitment will be signed for the development of a Health and Wellness programme for the tourism sector.

This Health and Wellness programme will address prevention and ways of controlling chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, HIV and AIDS that are of grave concern to   residents of TCI.

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Press Coverage

TCI Represented at UNFPA’s Condom Marketing and Communication Workshop
TCNAP Participates in AIDS 2010 Conference
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TCNAP Published Articles

Primary School's Essay Competition 2009 3rd Place Winners:Tyra Forbes & Tijani Fearon

Theme:

Stop Discrimination! Allow Access to Treatment and Care: Stop AIDS! Keep the Promise

A home with no parents, a school without a teacher, thousands of communities in Africa, Asia and other developing areas of the world and even in our own back yards are faced with this threat from the greatest development, social economic and health crisis in history, AIDS.

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Primary School's Essay Competition 2009 2nd place winner: Brielle Jones

Theme:

Stop Discrimination! Allow Access to Treatment and Care: Stop AIDS! Keep the Promise

People with AIDS are no different the others. AIDS patients should be treated like human being. As a young Turks and Caicos Islander, it saddens me and breaks my heart to see how poorly people with AIDS are treated. We treat them as if we might get infected if we get too close to them. What we need to realize is that these are people wit real feeling. Having AIDS do not dehumanize them. Another strong reality is that anyone can become infected.

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Peer Educators Training & Youth Summit 2008
VCT Training 2009
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