The National AIDS Program (NAP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education will convene a three-day meeting on formulating Policy Guidelines for: (a) Addressing HIV and AIDS/ STIs and other Life Threatening Illnesses in the Education sector and (b) the implementation of the revised ‘Healthy Living Curriculum’.

The meeting, which is supported by the DFID/AID Inc/Option’s project, will be held from September 27^th to 29^th 2011, at the Social Development Building in Providenciales.

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 9^th 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.

The National AIDS Programme will be hosting its Second sitting of the National HIV/AIDS Multi-Sectoral Committee on the 7^th 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.

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands; Monday, March 9^th, 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.”