The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has distanced itself from moves to have former President Bharrat Jagdeo return for a third term. Over the past week,NFL Jerseys China, a court case was filed to challenge the Constitution which limits a President to two terms inBharrat Jagdeooffice.A flyer has also since surfaced which is pushing for Jagdeo to become the Prime Ministerial candidate for the party in the upcoming General and Regional Elections set for May 11.Yesterday, the ruling party in a statement said it had nothing to do with the attempts,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, and it is serving as a distraction at this time.“What is of interest is the timing at which this challenge is being raised and by whom. Guyana is on the cusp of national and regional elections.?Many challenges lie ahead, the most important being to ensure that the elections are free and fair. Clearly, this new development is an attempt to throw a spanner in the works.”Regarding Monday’s filing of a case by a Cedric Richardson which wants the court to rule, that the two-term limit signed into law in 2001 by Jagdeo himself while he was President,Discount Football Jerseys, was unconstitutional, PPP said that the sponsors of the legal challenge appear to have a hidden agenda, “in the real sense of the term other than invoking or blocking the boogie of a “third term” for Bharrat Jagdeo”.The interest of those behind the challenge lies in the “darkest and deepest crevices of a democracy comparable to the galleries of Hades”.PPP noted that it was Jagdeo himself who publicly affirmed time and again that he has no interest whatsoever in a third term. This happened this week also after news of the court case surfaced.“It has now become?obvious that Mr. Jagdeo’s assertions fell on deaf ears? and that his expression of disinterest in returning to the Presidency notwithstanding,Cheap MLB Jerseys China, the? modern-day Quislings working in close collaboration with the local satraps, continue to generate and peddle this absolute nonsense,NFL Jerseys China, elevating it to useless legalistic twaddle.”The party said that Jagdeo remains a highly popular figure within and beyond the membership and supporters of the PPP, but it should in no way be intended to be translated into a “third term” candidature.“The PPP is aware of the fact that while many of its members and supporters hold the former President in high esteem and would have liked to see his return to the Presidency, they are very much aware that there are wolves in sheep’s clothing in our society who seek to sow discord and to engage in deceitful and artful fandangle aimed at misleading and confusing PPP supporters.”PPP also insisted that while the other political parties are still dithering to name their Presidential Candidate, the PPP has already done so. It is President Donald Ramotar.“The PPP has confronted many subterfuges in and out of elections season.? We fought off and overcame all of them.? This new subterfuge will be fought off too and consigned to the dustbin of history.”According to the flyer,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, which is making its rounds on the social pages, Jagdeo was not consulted on the petition to nominate him as a Prime Ministerial candidate. The flyer is addressed to the Central and Executive Committee of the PPP/C.Despite leaving office in 2011 after completing his constitutional two terms in office, Jagdeo has remained a controversial figure with questions over his role in the multi-billion dollar drug contracts to the his best friend, Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop; the Berbice Bridge deal; the Amaila Falls hydro costs and the shady Marriott Hotel project.

By Neil MarksSome patients who test positive for the deadly combination of Tuberculosis and HIV abruptly stop taking the prescribed medication, challenging health care workers to track them down in efforts to bring down the fatality rate.A spike in the number of persons testing positive for the TB/HIV infection is alarming, says Dr. Jeetendra Mohanlall who runs the National Tuberculosis Programme.Two years ago, 34 persons who tested positive for both TB and HIV died, but Dr. Mohanlall said that lives can be saved if persons stay on their medication.“You have facilities for persons to be diagnosed, you have the treatment to give them, you have persons working with them, but they choose to default for various reasons,” Dr. Mohanlall lamented.Last year, the National TB Programme monitored 213 cases of the TB/HIV co-infection.For the first half of this year, of the 290 cases of TB on record,Cheap Jerseys From China, more than 60 of those persons also tested positive for HIV.Of the co-infected patients who were recorded last year,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, a whopping 38 per cent defaulted on the treatment.Patients who stop taking their medication are the biggest headache for the National Tuberculosis Programme, which is mainly responsible for monitoring patients who have the TB/HIV co-infection.A person can be treated and cured of TB within six months. Last year, half of those who were put on treatment were cured. Those cured exclude those who dropped out of the treatment phase and those who were on continuing treatment.Some patients stop taking the medication because of the side effects. Numbness and change in the colour of body fluids (such as urine) are two of the side effects. Patients are given vitamin supplements to deal with the numbness.Also,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, some patients stopped taking the medication because of the number of pills they have to use. To avoid the so-called “pill burden” different drugs are combined into a single tablet, so patients do not have to take many tablets.But Dr. Mohanlall said there is yet another problem in getting patients to stay on the medication. Migration is one. Some patients, he said, may move to interior regions to get into mining so as to provide for their families.“Sometimes we plead with them to stay to complete their treatment, but they don’t all listen,” Dr. Mohanlall lamented.To solve this problem, the National TB programme has been scurrying to meet with mining companies and mining authorities to see how best to keep the patients on treatment.He said that the National TB Programme has been working with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, the country’s mines authority, but he said “we have to take that collaboration to a higher level now.”In many cases, mining camps are located away from health care facilities,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, so the difficulty lies in putting patients in touch with health care workers in the regions they move to.“Sometimes they (the patients) don’t give you any information. They just pack up and leave, and that can be a real challenge,Cheap NHL Jerseys China,” said Dr. Mohanlall.He believes that families can play a major role in helping TB/HIV co-infected patients to complete their treatment.“I’d like to recommend strong that family members support these patients.? Remember they have a double disease burden to deal with, and so that may cause them to move, even if they don’t have to move to work.”Since HIV is a virus that weakens the immune system, contracting other diseases, like TB, becomes easier.A person can have TB infection for many years without showing any signs of TB disease; if that person’s immune system weakens, the infection can become active and develop into TB.HIV and TB form a lethal combination, each speeding the other’s progress. Since HIV infection weakens the immune system, a person is more at risk to develop TB if exposed to the TB bacteriumIn Guyana,NBA Jerseys China, testing for TB is done using a Tuberculin Skin Test (TST). This screening test is done to determine whether a person who is exposed to someone with active Tuberculosis has developed latent TB infection.A trained health care worker will inject 0.1 ml of 5 tuberculin units of purified protein derivative (PPP) into the dermis of the skin. PPD is usually administered about 2 inches below the elbow joint on the left forearm.The TST should be read 48 to 72 hours after administration.However, another problem faced by the National TB Programme is that some of those tested do not return, so the result is generally left unknown.Guyana has had a collaborative programme to deal with TB/HIV infection since 2006. The country is a

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