The Prime Minister of St. Maarten the Honorable Sarah Wescot-Williams supported the other St. Maarten delegates at the AIDS 2012 Poster Presentation Safe Secrets. The St. Maarten Abstract of the Poster Presentation was chosen to amongst the presentation sessions from more than a thousand applications. Pictured with the Prime Minister are members of the St. Maarten Delegation Ria Uiterloo, Policy Advisor to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Emilia Thomas, Dwayne Thompson, Joy Arnell and Fenna Arnell.The Prime Minister headed the St. Maarten Delegation to the AIDS 2012 conference which ended on Friday. The International AIDS Conference is the largest international meeting on a single health issue. Every two years 20,000 participants representing all stakeholders in the global response to HIV meet to assess progress and identify future priorities. The AIDS 2012 conference is the single most widely covered HIV event in the world and is organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS) in partnership with a number of international and local partners. The conference theme, "Turning the Tide Together", emphasizes that the HIV epidemic has reached a defining moment and that by acting decisively on recent scientific advances in HIV treatment and biomedical prevention, the hope for a cure and the continuing evidence of the ability to scale-up key interventions in the most-needed settings there is now the potential to end the HIV epidemic.
From the Cabinet of the Prime Minister