Regional Testing Day (RTD) is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this Friday June 30 when people from 21 countries across the Caribbean will be afforded the opportunity to get tested for HIV at over three hundred (300) sites across the region.
The aim is to test one hundred thousand (100,000) people across the region during this 10th anniversary year.
Last year over twenty thousand (20,000) people were tested in 20 countries at over 300 testing sites.
Regional Testing Day has been organised by LIVE UP: The Caribbean Media Alliance for the last ten years, with the support of two (2) critical strategic partners: Scotiabank and the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV AIDS (PANCAP).
Scotiabank makes their bank branches accessible so the public can be tested easily as they do their banking business while extending hospitality to the testing and counselling teams and taking care of any external infrastructure needed at testing sites. PANCAP mobilizes all Ministries and Departments of Health who in turn provide all the Counseling and Testing Teams. The Ministries of Health provide the testing kits, expertise and resources to conduct the testing at the agreed locations.
A major milestone of the 10th Anniversary Regional Testing Day celebrations was the presentation of thirty-three (33) awards to organizations and individuals from across the Caribbean who have worked tirelessly over the last ten years in support of Regional Testing Day (RTD) activities.
The awardees hailed from St. Lucia, Jamaica Belize, Haiti, Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts-Nevis, Dominica and the British Virgin Islands. LIVE UP: The Caribbean Media Alliance presented the awards to 21 individuals and 12 organizations as part of its continued promotion of its unique media brand, addressing HIV and issues of human rights and social justice in the Caribbean.
People need to hear the truth that they are sinners in need of salvation, and they cannot save themselves. They can only be saved by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, (Acts 16:31) and receiving HIM as their Savior.
This means to believe Christ bore your punishment in a substitutionary way upon the cross at Calvary according to Romans 5:6-9 and call upon Him in prayer acknowledging your sins, asking Him to come into your heart and save you. Please read Romans 10:13 and Revelation 3:20.
It is only by the Bible we can have this certainty. Hear what God says not what a religious leader or organization tells you.
*These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may KNOW that ye HAVE eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.* (1 John 5:13)
*For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8,9)
Sincerely, Rev…
If the test involves you in being pricked in any way, don’t do it. HIV/ AIDS is a contrived program not caused by a ‘virus’. It was instituted by the our masters to wipe us out. Zika has the same hallmark, also ebola.
ALL HAVE BEEN PATENTED BY THE USA!!!!!!
What proof do you offer us that these said diseases have been created by the USA rather than being natural viruses? Why would HIV be intended to wipe out your people any more than to wipe out any other people
If you are so knowledge and sensitive why do you allow Planned Parenthood to operate among your people
The main item on their agenda is the establishment of abortion clinics. Do you not
know this organization was started to abort black babies and diminish the number of black babies being born in the USA
Your time, money, and energy could be put to better use than to spread faked news about HIV and AIDS.
You would be doing more good if you would dedicate your effort to promote the moral code God has given us to live by in the Bible: Romans 1:26,27, 1 Corinthians 6:9,10, Galatians 5:19-21, and Jude 7.
Continuation:
Regardless of where, when, how, and why the HIV virus originated it would be wiped out in a short time if people would stop fornicating and buggering.
The mother to baby and infected needle and contaminated blood transmissions are under control. The problem of immorality is not. People continue to pursue their sinful lifestyles. The greatest defense against AIDS is not a condom, a pill, or injection. It is the clear preaching of the gospel coupled with the faithful exposition and teaching of the Holy Scriptures.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
Second paragraph.
If you are so knowledge … should be if you are so knowledgeable …
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.