Guyana will soon have its first “comprehensive” Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI) Strategic Plan in the coming months, placing more focus on diseases which have been overshadowed by HIV/AIDS.
It was in recognition of the serious health, social, emotion and economic consequences of STIs that a draft strategy plan, which will cover this year through to 2020, was developed by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry, through the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS), is committed to providing national leadership in collaboration with local, regional, national and international partners to develop the plan to manage and prevent STIs in Guyana.
The main goal of the plan is to “reduce the transmission and morbidity and mortality caused by