Strong Caribbean team for UN AIDS meeting

Ernest Massiah

In June two Prime Ministers, one Deputy Prime Minister, 10 Ministers of Health, including Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, and five First Ladies from the Caribbean will head to the United Nations in New York to speak to the global community about the Caribbean reality of HIV.

Meanwhile, the Director of the UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team, Dr Ernest Massiah, has said that although five countries in the region have seen dramatic decreases in new HIV infections, approximately 18,000 people become infected each year,