CDC to Open Office in Guyana to Help Fight HIV/AIDS

The CDC will open an office in Guyana this month to help local health officials combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, US Ambassador to Guyana Ronald Goddard said on Monday. The first of two doctors assigned to this South American country is due to arrive this week, and the second before the end of the month, Goddard said. One of the two doctors is an epidemiologist, but Goddard did not know the specialty of the other one. The CDC office will be housed in the Health Ministry, he said. The move complies with a promise made by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson in April at a conference of health ministers to help fight rising infection rates in the Caribbean. Thompson pledged that Guyana, Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago would be among the first of more than a dozen Caribbean nations that would receive US assistance. The CDC is also expected to send doctors to other countries in the region by the end of the year.

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