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Anguillian Women Look At HIV/AIDS
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Participants and presenters of a two-day workshop, a Response to the feminine dimensions of HIV/AIDS, held in Anguilla on Monday and Tuesday this week, have took a long, hard look at the ravages of the disease and its impact on society and family-life.
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Four of the workshop participants
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The workshop, at the Soroptimist Club’s conference room, was part of “Building a faith response to HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.” It is a project being undertaken and implemented by the Caribbean Conference of Churches (CCC) with the support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
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Mrs. Evelyn Smithen, CCC Co-ordinator
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The main facilitator was the Coordinator for the North-eastern Sub-region, Evelyn Smithen, wife of the Dean Rudolph Smithen, a former Anglican priest in Anguilla, now stationed at St. John’s Cathedral in Antigua. Mrs. Smith outlined the CIDA/CCC project to the workshop participants and, as a presenter, one of her topics was stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS.
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Another section of the participants
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Other presenters and their topics were: Dr. Bryan, who spoke on Challenges of HIV/AIDS; Dr. Brett Hodge who gave two presentations on The female reproductive system and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS; Dr. Phyllis Fleming-Banks, whose topic was the Socio-cultural impact of HIV/AIDS; Lana Hoyoung, who spoke on Gender Roles and Human Sexuality; Kenneth Hodge, Director of Information and Broadcasting, whose presentation was entitled Women, the media and HIV/AIDS; and Patricia Beard, National AIDS Coordinator, whose topic was Prevention and coping strategies.