How HIV Took the World by Storm

2010-11-29T14:48:12Z

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Could the lack of HIV prevention for male sex workers in the Caribbean fuel AIDS epidemic

2010-11-29T15:16:03Z

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The HIV epidemic in the Caribbean

2010-11-29T15:15:39Z

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HIV and AIDS: Contributing factors in Haiti

2010-11-29T15:40:47Z

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How concerned should Americans be about HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean?

2010-11-04T14:33:23Z

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What Is Guaiacum?

2010-11-05T10:09:46Z

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What Is Ampalaya?

2010-11-05T11:02:24Z

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Today on New Scientist: 21 July 2010

2010-11-02T13:11:02Z

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Haitians with AIDS hit by broken promises of aid

2010-07-21T09:16:03Z

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, which was hit by a huge earthquake on January 12, killing 250,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless.

An international pledge of 500 million dollars (385 million euro...

Betty White's Upcoming Calendar and More of This Week's Inspiring Pop Culture Moments

2010-09-10T23:50:39Z

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US expands Caribbean AIDS program

2010-05-13T07:32:45Z

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-na...

Caribbean to get $100M grant from US to fight AIDS

2010-06-26T03:53:20Z

Caribbean nations expect to receive $100 million grant from US government to fight AIDS

Leaders 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

AIDS victims not forgotten in Haiti quake chaos

2010-04-16T07:19:54Z

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 the city, Ghiesko (Haitian Group for Studies in Karposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) is one of the first AIDS clinics in the world to be set up after the...

Report: Inequalities Fueling AIDS Pandemic In Latin America

2010-06-12T10:02:06Z

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 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 general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) is to be held on the island of Grenada from October 28 to 30.

The Jorge Perez, deputy director of the Tropical Medicine Institute in 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 drugs for less than 500 dollars annually.

The four drugs -- atazanavir, ritona...

From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS

2010-04-16T11:29:40Z

Though struggles and stigma continue, Haiti has found success in its fight against AIDS

When 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 Haiti's central plateau, watching her four children play under the plantain trees. She looks healthy, her...

UN official: Caribbean must expand HIV programs

2010-04-16T13:57:10Z

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 that causes AIDS.

Sealey made the comments Thursday night in

US, Italian stars inaugurate children's hospital in Haiti

2010-04-16T13:59:52Z

Celebrities from Hollywood and Italy helped cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new hospital for handicapped children in Haiti that has the highest infant mortality in the Western hemisphere.

US actress Madeleine Stowe, Italy's Martina Colombari, Canadian director Openly gay marchers make first-ever appearance at World AIDS Day rally in Haiti

A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.

Th...

Aid agencies: world's poor will be biggest victims

2010-04-16T16:37:28Z

The world's poorest people will be hungrier, sicker and have fewer jobs as a result of the global financial crisis, and cash-strapped aid agencies will be less able to help, aid groups are warning.

The charities that provide food, medicine and other relief on the ground say cutbacks have already started, but it will take months or more before the full impact is felt in the poorest countries of Africa, Beenie Man and TOK or demand that the artists make a public apology statement. Both Beenie Man and TOK have used derogatory terms and even promoted violence towards gays and lesbians via their lyrics.

“LIFEbeat needs to understand that Santo Domingo mayor who claims he cured more than 50 people of AIDS by injecting them with an unknown substance, prosecutors said Thursday.

Police raided the lab of Jose Ramon Baez Acosta on Wednesday after receiving complaints from former patients, said Luisa Matos, a spokeswoman for the San...

Caribbean officials say fight against HIV/AIDS undermined by ignorance

2010-09-08T19:52:50Z

Widespread ignorance about HIV/AIDS is undermining efforts to fight the spread of the virus in the Caribbean, which has the second highest rate of infection after sub-Saharan Africa, health officials said Sunday.

Discrimination by employers and others is so pervasive that infected people often delay seeking treatment for the virus, still largely perceived as a "gay ...

Haiti

2011-01-04T19:31:15Z

A man runs on a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Cuba-Michigan Cigar Shop

2011-01-03T14:32:15Z

Master Cigar Roller, Luis Acosta, of Cuba, perfects his craft on the storefront of La Casa De La Habana on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 in Detroit. Cuba's government-controlled tobacco company is suing the owner of cigar shops in the Detroit area, claiming his business’ name is too similar t...

Cuba Predictions

2011-01-03T14:32:11Z

A bunch of bananas hangs from a doorframe of a temple where Afro-Cuban Yoruba religion priests presented the "Letter of the Year" which lists predictions made by Cuban Santeros for 2011 in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. The bananas are an offering for Chango saint, Lord of Fire, War and Thunder. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

Old Men Of Versailles

2011-01-02T21:31:34Z

In this photo made June 3, 2010, Cuban exile Mike Baralt displays the paper he writes for. His wife of 50 years, died 12 years ago. After her death, friends suggested that he begin to write for a local small Spanish language newspaper. Some of his columns are political, about the death of Cuba under Castro. Others are philosophical. And some are sad, items written about friends whose health is failing. ...

Haiti Year Of Crisis

2010-12-31T12:01:50Z

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, people walk down a street amid earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. More than 230,000 are believed to have died in the quake, and more than a million remain homeless. A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear.(AP Photo/Gregor...

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