OECS Launches Health Fair to commemorate World AIDS Day 2018

OECS Media Alert

OECS Launches Health Fair on November 30 to commemorate World AIDS Day 2018 which will be observed under the theme "Know your Status". 

WHAT

2018 will mark 30 years of international commemoration of World AIDS Day which will be observed under the theme “Know your Status”.  As part of the sensitization activities held worldwide, the OECS Commission is organizing a Health Fair in collaboration with the United and Strong Association, STI Clinic, the St. Lucia Planned Parenthood Association, the Community Nursing Service, and the Bureau of Health Education of Saint-Lucia.

The one day event which aims to increase awareness of World AIDS Day, sensitize the general public and encourage testing for HIV will include multiple activities: 

  • Testing for HIV And Syphilis

  • Condom Demonstration

  • Presentation of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)

  • Presentation on Gender Identity

  • Diabetes and Hypertensive Screening

  • Food portion Demonstration and Food sampling 

  • Dietary Advise and Counseling

  • Health Education and Counselling

Staff of the OECS, staff and students of Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, and the general public are expected to attend. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The media is invited to attend.

WHEN

The event will be held on November 30, 2018

WHERE

OECS Health Unit
Annius Building
Frank Johnson Avenue
The Morne
Castries

CONTACTS

Cleophas d'Auvergne
cleophas.dauvergne@oecs.int
(758) 458 1260

Eliza James
eliza.james@oecs.int
(758) 518 8219

Cleophas D'Auvergne

HIV/TB Elimination Project (Health Unit), OECS

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The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is an International Organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance among independent and non-independent countries in the Eastern Caribbean. The OECS came into being on June 18th 1981, when seven Eastern Caribbean countries signed a treaty agreeing to cooperate with each other while promoting unity and solidarity among its Members. The Treaty became known as the Treaty of Basseterre, so named in honour of the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis where it was signed. The OECS today, currently has eleven members, spread across the Eastern Caribbean comprising Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique and Guadeloupe. 

Contact

Morne Fortune Castries Saint Lucia

+1758-455-6377

media@oecs.int

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