PAHO urges testing as the first step towards preventing HIV and halting the AIDS epidemic
Knowing HIV status is vital to accessing prevention, treatment, ensuring follow-up, protecting future partners and avoiding new HIV infections. 1 in 4 people with the virus in Latin America and the Caribbean do More...
Information campaign HIV / AIDS
WILLEMSTAD - A large-scale information program on HIV infection, which can lead to the disease AIDS, has started. At the end of this year, six or seven neighborhoods are intended to be connected to the HIV-Biep More...
The number of HIV patients on Curaçao is rising
WILLEMSTAD - The number of HIV patients in Curaçao continues to increase. Patients are also increasingly younger. That's what Cura + said in several interviews with the media. According to the care providers, the More...
Survey highlights persistent discrimination against people living with HIV
AMSTERDAM - Despite progress being made in treatment that enables people living with HIV to work, they continue to face discrimination when seeking employment and as they try to keep their jobs and progress in their More...
HIV infection among young people is increasing
WILLEMSTAD - The number of HIV infections among young people is rising. This is according to a report from the Caribbean Network. 2000 people are now registered. But Cura+ thinks that the actual numbers are higher. Cura More...
Six Caribbean territories and states eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
The World Health Organization has validated Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Saint Kitts and Nevis as achieving dual elimination GENEVA - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, More...
3 to 4 new HIV cases every week
WILLEMSTAD - Shocking figures on World AIDS Day: among Curaçao youths aged up to 24, 3 to 4 new cases of HIV are detected each week. That's what Famia Plania (Planned Family) says. They want more to be done to More...
WHO urges early action to combat threat of HIV drug resistance in the Caribbean
Antimicrobial drug resistance is a growing challenge to global health and sustainable development. GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the spread of an HIV strain resistant to some of the More...
Largest global HIV program established for key populations in Eastern and Southern Caribbean
PORT OF SPAIN - A new project, the first and largest of its kind, is working to reduce the spread of HIV and improve health care for key populations most at risk of and already living with HIV in select Caribbean More...
Nine percent rise in new HIV infections in the Caribbean
DURBAN - “Complacency is largely responsible for the slippage in the AIDS response in the Caribbean,” said the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy for HIV in the Caribbean, Dr Edward Greene, who More...
