Topic: Caribbean
As Haiti struggles to rebuild itself after a devastating earthquake, people with AIDS are still waiting for aid promised to them before the catastrophe, activists here said Tuesday. There are some 120,000 people with the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in Haiti, ...
The United States and the Caribbean Community (Caricom) signed an agreement Tuesday paving the way for Washington to expand an AIDS relief program to 12 Caribbean nations. Previously, only two Caricom member-nations --- Guyana and Haiti--- and the Dominican Republic had benefited ...
Caribbean nations expect to receive $100 million grant from US government to fight AIDSLeaders in the Caribbean expect to receive a $100 million grant from the U.S. government to help fight AIDS over the next five years. Acting U.S. Ambassador in Guyana ...
Even in the chaos left by the January 12 earthquake, Resena and her one-year-old baby made their monthly visit to Port-au-Prince's Ghiesko clinic for AIDS treatment, preserving an unbroken lifeline that has sustained them for two years. Located in the center of ...
A new report says social and economic inequalities are fueling the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Latin America, Caribbean A new report released ahead of World AIDS Day says social and economic inequalities are fueling the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean. ...
The number of people with HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean is on the decline, but more must be done to contain the disease, a senior official said Monday, on the eve of a regional meeting on the ailment. The ninth annual ...
Cuban health authorities have warned of a dramatic rise in AIDS cases among the young on the island, where there over 1,300 new HIV infections in 2008 and another 1,400 are estimated for this year. Cubans aged 19 to 24 are at ...
Former US president Bill Clinton announced a deal Thursday with two major US drug companies to supply cheap HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis treatments to developing countries. Under the agreement, Mylan and its subsidiary Matrix will make available a second-line therapy of four antiretroviral ...
Though struggles and stigma continue, Haiti has found success in its fight against AIDSWhen Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin. Fifteen years later, she walks around her two-room concrete house on ...
The U.N. agency leading the fight against AIDS says preventive health programs in the Caribbean must be strengthened. Karen Sealey is the chief of UNAIDS Caribbean. She says prevention needs to improve "to achieve an increase in knowledge about HIV," the virus ...
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