World AIDS Day
Thursday December 01st 2005, 12:01 am
Filed under: General
Posted by: Georgia

Support World AIDS Day

- In 2004, AIDS claimed 24,000 lives in the Caribbean.

- “Despite the availability of life-saving medicines, access to antiretroviral drugs by those infected Caribbean is still proportionately low”

- “Rampant stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, vulnerable groups such as sex workers and men who have sex with men, keep people from accessing proper treatment and care”

- “In order for these successes to be replicated throughout the region there is need for a well balanced response to the epidemic in all countries with renewed emphasis on prevention, care and support”

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True that!

Comment by alice 12.01.05 @ 5:24 am

[...] – Bob Green in Anguilla posted a reminder of the island’s 3rd annual Race Against AIDS on November 27. – Guyana-Gyal devoted one of her dialect vignettes to the media response in Guyana. – Caribbean Free Radio ran a World AIDS Day button and cited statements issued by the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre. – Over at Flickr, Kendrick Brinson posted a powerful image of a Belizean AIDS patient, noting that “Belize has the highest incidence per capita of HIV in Central America”. [...]

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