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HIV/AIDS Facts – African American Community
HIV/AIDS Facts – African American Men
HIV/AIDS Facts – African American Women
HIV/AIDS Facts – The Caribbean
HIV/AIDS Facts – The Caribbean
- HIV/AIDS infection rates in the Caribbean are among the highest in the world second only to Sub-Saharan Africa.
- As of December 1999, there were 360,000 adults and children
- living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. By the end of the 2000, that number had grown to an estimated 390,000.
- In the English-speaking Caribbean, HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of death among men between the ages of 15 and 44 years.
- In English-speaking Caribbean, 35% of HIV positive adults were women.
- Approximately one out of every 300 people living in the U.S. Virgin Islands is living with HIV/AIDS.
Source: UNAIDS, HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Fact Sheet, February 2001