CARIBBEAN TODAY Funding approved for Caribbean HIV/AIDS fight ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, CMC The Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) will provide $34.5 million to the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) to support the HIV response in the Caribbean. The approval was made during the board meeting of the Global Fund last month. Carl Browne, director of the PANCAP Coordinating Unit (PCU), who attended the nm lini --said he was thankful to the entire PAN- CAP fraternity, including the UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team, for its hard work which "has borne wonderful fruit for the people of the Caribbean whom we serve. "...I have no doubt that the same spirit of collaboration that brought us this far will see us through to the end," he added. PRAISE Browne also praised UNAIDS and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for providing much of the funding to allow PANCAP to submit "a top notch" proposal to the meeting. Officials said the pro- posal received a Category 2 rating, which means that PAN- CAP can begin making arrangements to access the funds almost immediately after the completion of certain pro- cedural requirements and the signing of the grant. PANCAP, established in 2001, is a regional umbrella organization which brings together national HIV pro- grams partnering with region- al and international organiza- tions involved in the Caribbean's response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. The Global Fund was cre- ated in 2002 with a mandate to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases - HIV, TB and malaria, and to direct resources to areas of Caribbean launches public climate change campaign GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC The 15-member Caribbean community (CARICOM) grouping has launched a public campaign ahead of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Denmark. The initiative is designed to promote the region's unified position on climate change ahead of the Dec. 7-18 meeting. The campaign under the theme "1.5 C to Stay Alive", is intended to support and "dramatize a common region- al approach for mitigating the effects of climate change on the region", which will be articulated at Copenhagen. The CARICOM Secretariat said that the plan includes a dig- ital display on the harmful effects of ris- ing green house gases on the small island states (SIDS) and several video Carrington presentations on the how climate change is affecting human, animal and plant life in the Caribbean. COMMON APPROACH Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said the common regional approach to mitigate Ex-U.S. president expands malaria fight in Haiti, Dominican Republic PORT OF PRINCE, Haiti, CMC Former United States President Jimmy Carter has announced plans to expand a $200,000 pilot project in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to curb the spread of malaria. "One of the most impor- tant developments has been the new co- operation between the two coun- tries," said Carter while touring a Haitian hos- pital that treats malaria victims Carter recently. "And, for the first time in history, they are targeting the complete elimination of the disease, instead of just treating sick people." Carter said he was deter- mined to travel to "the most distant and small and isolated and poverty-stricken villages in the deserts, in the jungles and in the poorest countries on earth" to wipe out diseases that have long been distant memories in richer countries. "It's a very different kind of life than any person could sort of do while still in the White House," he said. U.S. health officials say about 30,000 Haitians and sev- eral thousand people across the border in the Dominican Republic are infected annually with the mosquito-borne illness. 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