The response which came from Region One during the recent National Week of testing has been regarded as ‘unimpressive’ by Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy. The Minister’s remarks came during a press conference on Thursday where he revealed that although there has been a significant increase in the number of individuals tested this year, Region One did not attract an acceptable response.Against this background, the Minister revealed plans to streamline another testing activity in the Region which is aimed at targeting those who have not yet been tested.“I will mandate the National AIDS Programme Secretariat to conduct a special testing week in Region One sometime in November-December.”? The numbers of those tested during that activity he explained will be added to the 2011 testing activities.According to the Minister, Guyana must end 2011 knowing that in every Region and Community in this country we are providing access for testing so that every citizen is able to obtain testing.“We must ensure that this is a dedicated response where the national programme will go into the Region and into all of the different parts and all sub-regions and we will cover Region One end to end spreading awareness and also providing testing service,NFL Jerseys China Online,” the Minister asserted.MInister of Health Dr. Leslie RamsammyThe Minister said that while there has been an overall increase in the testing response in all 10 administrative regions, with Region Four in particular recording huge numbers, two Regions have for some time been lagging behind in terms of persons knowing their status. These Regions he identified as Regions One and Five.However,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, while Region One is yet to impress the Minister,China Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Region Five this year has? upped its testing response. “I am delighted to report that this far, with the incomplete results, Region Five was the third ranked Region in terms of numbers. When we compile these numbers as per population Region Five is going to rank extremely high because they had quite significant numbers,Wholesale Jerseys,” Minister Ramsammy boasted.He said that based on information already available the Region was able to rack up numbers five times more than it had at the last National Week of Testing suggesting that “Region Five responded in 2011 and I am happy…”Also responding well this year was Region Six,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, a region which the Minister said has continued to provide testing to its communities. “That is overwhelming and impressive and I do know when the final numbers come in close to 12,000 people would have been tested which means again they would have surpassed the target of 10,000 that we would have established…”Although all reports of the testing week have not yet been submitted it has been deduced that in excess of 41,000 tests were carried out during the recently concluded National Week of testing (October 3 through? October 7, 2011) in the 10 administrative regions.Of the total tests recorded 37,986 were conducted at temporary sites and 3,592 were done at fixed sites. And while the data will be disaggregated at a later data it has been ascertained that 25,576 tests were done in Region Four.