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November 8, 2010
HIV/AIDS Leading Cause of Young Adult Deaths in Caribbean
HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death in young and middle-aged
adults in the Caribbean, according to a U.N. study released at the 10th
Annual General Meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and
AIDS (PANCAP) and reported by IPS. Despite gains in access to HIV
medications in the past decade, between 210,000 and 270,000 people were
living with HIV in the Caribbean in 2008—about 70 percent of them in
Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The biggest improvements were seen in
maternal health and mother-to-child transmission, which lowered new
infections among children by 18 percent in 2008.
To read the IPS article, click here.
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