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Scotiabank & Health Ministry provide free HIV testing today!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Committed to supporting the communities of the Virgin Islands (VI) by bringing together the people to build a bright and healthy future, Scotiabank and the Ministry of Health came together for the fourth year to host their annual, ‘Regional testing Day 2012’.
99 cases of HIV/AIDS in the Virgin Islands, 35 dead!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Appearing before the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC) National AIDS Coordinator (NAC) Mrs. Noelene Levons-Clarke, told the members that in the Virgin Islands since June 1985 up until December 2011, there were 99 cases of HIV/AIDS reported to the Ministry of Health and Social Development. She further stated that of the 99 cases there were 35 AIDS related deaths so 1/3 of the infected persons have passed on which left a total of approximately 64 reported cases in the Territory.
Gov't to commission traffic lights today
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Ministry of Communications and Works will be commissioning the Wickham’s Cay II traffic lights Today, November 3, 2011.
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