In keeping with the World AIDS Day theme of “Leadership,” the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) is celebrating leadership by members of the Coalition, among them two Guyanese women.?Miriam EdwardsThe Coalition said that the leaders are taking a celebrated risk of stigma and discrimination by taking a stand for their community. “We are therefore commending their bravery and commitment to a world without AIDS and a Caribbean where social justice is a reality,” CVC stated.According to CVC, marginalized groups carry a disproportionate burden of the AIDS epidemic and yet they are often not given adequate attention in national AIDS programmes.The Guyanese “leaders” who are part of CVC are Miriam Edwards and Donna Snagg.Miriam Edwards is a sex worker organiser and a leader in the Caribbean sex worker community.After seeing many persons die from HIV infection,Cheap Jerseys China, including her sister,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, Edwards feels that HIV awareness among sex workers must be heightened in the region.That led her to found a local Guyana organisation called “One Love” and later to co-found the regionally-based Caribbean Sex Work Coalition and then Guyana’s national organisation of sex workers,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, Guyana Sex Work Coalition.Donna Snagg“This is our profession; we must stand up and protect our rights,” she said at a recent national consultation of sex workers in Georgetown.At any given time,Wholesale Jerseys China, Edwards can be seen in training session for sex workers, distributing condoms and safer sex material, visiting those living with HIV in the hospitals or their homes,Nike Air Max 98 Og, and advocating at the national, regional and international levels for the rights of sex workers and other marginalised groups in the Caribbean.According to CVC, throughout the Caribbean there is a profound misconception of members of the societies who have experienced deportation, to the point of them now being labelled and depersonalised as “deportees”.This label overshadows those who these persons really are and their potential to contribute to society.“Often lost in a system that is unaccommodating and hostile, the associations with the label ‘deportee’ in many respects deflect attention from the violations of their basic human rights that are commonplace,” CVC stated.Human rights activist, Snagg, had the experience of being deported from the USA approximately ten years ago but has used that encounter to mobilize other persons with similar experiences in Guyana.So important are these issues to her that she founded the Juncata Juvant Friendly Society,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, an NGO that caters for the needs of involuntary remigrants.The focus of the organisation focus is also to assist this population to reintegrate into Guyanese society and empowering them to be self sufficient.Added to that, Donna and the other members of Juncata Juvant recognise the challenges this group of persons encounter and their vulnerability to HIV.This inspires their activities and the conviction that with the right support they can overcome these hurdles with dignity and respect.