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More than 91 percent of all Tuberculosis patients were tested for HIV in 2010 and about 25 percent were found to be HIV positive, according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy. In fact he revealed that about 70 percent of all TB deaths in Guyana are because of AIDS.According to him there were 60 TB deaths in Guyana last year and the rate of TB mortality then was about eight per 100,Jerseys NFL Wholesale,000 persons in the population. However, this figure, the Minister said, is less than half of the TB mortality rate 10 years ago – a development he attributed to better and earlier diagnostic and treatment capacities in the country.The Minister’s remarks were detailed in a statement issued to mark the observance of World Tuberculosis Day yesterday under the theme ‘On the move against TB: Transforming the fight towards elimination’.Dr. Ramsammy expressed his conviction that the ancient disease can be stopped even as he highlighted his belief that “we have not used our scientific knowledge enough and we have not recognised globally that TB is truly an important public health threat that also is a threat in our effort to end poverty.”And even as World TB Day is observed, Minister Ramsammy disclosed that he will be calling on the global community to address the global constraints “if we expect to overcome the TB scourge that plagued human kind since ancient times.”According to the Minister there are a number of constraints that serve as difficulties in the fight against TB and unless it is addressed on a global scale the problem cannot be solved. He pointed to the fact that the current regimen for standard TB treatment involves four different medicines taken over six to nine months.This long period of treatment, he said, is simply unbearable for too many TB patients and therefore has proven to be a serious constraint, as it leads to non-compliance among persons being treated for TB. These persons are at high risk for developing resistant strains of TB, leading to multiple drug resistant (MDR and XDR) strains of TB. But even though there is still a small number of persons in Guyana with MDR, Minister Ramsammy warned that this is a big and growing problem in the world, with more than two percent of all cases now being classified in the world as MDR and XDR TB.As such there is a need for a more robust effort to develop newer medicines for TB that will enable a shorter treatment period.“At this time, the possibility of newer, more useful medicine seems a distant possibility. The world authorities will have to promote more aggressive research to remedy this situation.”Posing another challenge is the fact that children are treated with the same medicines as adults, the Minister added. For this reason, he said,Wholesale China Jerseys, there is a need for medicine formulations to treat children under 15 years old.Although the number of children with TB is small in Guyana, Minister Ramsammy noted that globally more than 20 percent of all TB cases are among children. He added that the lack of medicine formulation for children is a serious constraint and at this time, there is very little evidence that much effort is being made to produce paediatric medicines for TB.“It is my position that this is a moral issue and we are failing in the test of responding to the needs of our most vulnerable population – our children.”The Minister pointed out that for more than 100 years, the health sectors have relied on the same tests for TB. The skin test called the Mantoux test only identifies persons who have been exposed to TB, but does not identify persons with active TB.The sputum microscopy test, although it is a very good test, misses about half of the cases,Wholesale Jerseys, according to Minister Ramsammy. X-Rays also help doctors to make diagnoses as do culture tests for the bacteria.Other than the Mantoux test,wholesale nfl jerseys, all the others require health workers with certain skills and availability of technology, the Minister added. In addition, these tests do not provide rapid results and require some time before test results are available. This limits testing and makes access to diagnosis weak in most primary health care settings.But according to the Minister there is better news on this front,jerseys from china, since a newer test that would provide more rapid results is now available,Cheap NFL Jerseys, although not yet on a commercial basis.

– workers protest outside Ministry of Social ProtectionThe Ministry of Social Protection (formerly the Labour Ministry) on Friday morning attracted some of the sacked SAJ Rice Company Limited workers, their friends and union leaders, each with placards in hands held high,Cheap China Jerseys, depicting their disgust and anger with the way their labour dispute was handled.Protestors in front of the Ministry of Social Protection.The workers are claiming that they were wrongfully dismissed by the company who they also claimed failed to give them adequate notice.The SAJ Rice Mill Company Limited located at Burma, Mahaicony,Wholesale Jerseys, East Coast Demerara is a milling company that mills and exports rice. The company is owned by Haitians and Columbians Agencies.“Despite the fact that there has been a change of political administration, they are still employers in this country who are prepared to continue to violate the rights of workers with impunity and to treat workers contemptuously,” said one protestor.President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Norris Witter sent a clear message to other employers whether state,Cheap World Cup Jerseys, private,Cheap Jerseys, local or foreign that workers will not condone “these atrocities” any longer.Witter also mentioned,Nike Air Max Cheap Wholesale, “We are determining to exercise our militancy and bring an end to all acts of violation against workers of this country. The rights at work are a non-negotiable item.”The cause of the demonstrations began two weeks ago when employees of the said company approached the Union to inquire about its operations. However the General Workers Union (GWU) visited the worksite on July 31 and management responded on August 3 with their letters of termination.The company claimed redundancy as the grounds for the workers’ dismissals, Witter explained.Witter stressed that the termination of Employment and Severance of PAY Act chapter 98:08 stipulates that employers must inform the Labour Ministry before they dismiss any unrepresented union worker.The protestors managed to gain an audience with Minister Volda Lawrence and Chief Labour Officer Charles Ogle. The Minister however,Cheap NHL Jerseys, reassured that Government Officials are currently engaged with the matter in keeping with the law.The distraught workers promised to hold the Minister to her words.One of the affected workers in an interview with Kaieteur News claimed that the Company is “showing its true colours”.Another protestor said that he had to undergo surgery and when he went back to work he was told that he had to start over from scratch and would not be paid for the previous months.Efforts to contact SAJ Rice Company for a comment proved futile.