THA wages war against AIDS

THA’s Chief Secretary, Orville London, has pledged the Assem-bly’s support in the fight against HIV/AIDS both nationally and regionally. London made the declaration at the weekly post-Executive Council Media Briefing on Wednesday. He was scheduled to meet with the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and the Chief Medical Officer on Thursday to discuss a number of issues, chief among them the funding for initiatives started in Tobago in relation to the pandemic.

London felt that they (THA) had come a long way in coming up with a plan of action that stood a chance of having an impact on the disease “that is attempting to destroy us.”  He said that the information gathered should be used as a guide to assist the entire island. “Some of the things we are doing in Tobago we will consider them pilot projects and therefore the information that we get here on the problems that we encounter, these should be used to inform the entire national effort. Because we look at the fight against HIV/AIDS as a national, regional, international affair and I think everybody should be involved in the process.” London said. Chief Secretary London stressed that the THA intended to aggressively tackle the entire health sector on the island and was putting in place the necessary process “to do it sooner rather than later.”