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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HIV and AIDS from "A" to "Z"
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Turks and Caicos News
 
CONSULTATION ON HIV/AIDS POLICY AND LEGISLATION REVIEW
The National AIDS Programme will undertake a sub regional analysis of HIV/AIDS policy and legislation around stigma and discrimination in the UK Overseas Territories, through the project entitled “Overseas Territories Project -Taking Action Against HIV and AIDS in the UK OT”.
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HEALTH SECTOR TRAINING FOR TREATMENT, CARE AND SUPPORT OF PLWHA

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands; Monday, March 9th, 2009 - The National AIDS Programme within the Ministry of Health and Human Services continues to provide training for health personnel and other sectors, through the DFID Project “Taking action against HIV/AIDS in the Overseas Territories.”

 

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Press Coverage

Specialist to conduct research on HIV
Turks and Caicos Weekly News
RapPort starts Peer-to-Peer helpline
Turks and Caicos Weekly News
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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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