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Our Major Projects For 2005/06 · HIV/AIDS EDUCATIONAL FOR TEENS AND ADULTS In 2002, the Jamaica HIV/AIDS Epidemic Update blasted the myth that married women were safe from HIV. According to the report, more housewives (169) than prostitutes (159) reported developing AIDS. Data show that 8.4 per cent of all reported cases in women (3,386) were housewives. In the last 22 years of the epidemic in Jamaica, three percent of the reported AIDS cases were from persons who listed their occupation as housewives. These women became at risk through their husbands who would be their only sexual partner, said Dr. Yitades Gebre, former executive director of the National HIV/AIDS/STI Control and Prevention Programme. Married women are not the only ones at risk. New data show that infection among all women is growing at faster rates than men. They have a risk of getting the infection, which is two-and-a-half times that of men. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) indicates that women and girls age 15 to 49 represent 17.6 million of the estimated 39.4 million people worldwide who were living with HIV in 2004. Figures from the January to March 2005 Jamaica HIV/AIDS Epodemic Update show that the number of newly-reported AIDS cases in women in the age group 20-34 was 25 percent higher than men in the same age group. In 2003, for every 1,000 pregnant women in Jamaica, 13 were found to be HIV-positive. Implementation of this club project will draw on collaboration with and information from the Ministry of Health, PAHO/WHO and others, with the identification of a potential community where talks/seminars/lectures will be conducted as well as the organising of a free community health clinic on HIV/AIDS. Club and external funding will be used to support the initiative which is targeted to both teens and middle-aged persons.
· HEART SURGERY AND POST OPERATION CARE FOR CHILDREN Hundreds of Jamaican children each year fall victim to major surgery and post operation care which especially for the poor is beyond the reach of their parents and the ability of government. This project will establish/determine the scope of the problem and actual needs. Preliminary data suggests as many as 200 heart surgeries alone are required each year at the main Children's Hospital on the island, but it is only able handle a capacity of approximately 45 per year. This project in collaboration with local and international partners is intended to strengthen the capacity for the delivery of assistance for critical children's surgery and post operation care. |
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