UNAIDS’ Caribbean Regional Support office said the region can become the first in the world to halt the spread of the HIV virus, in its message for World AIDS Day 2011 on Thursday.
Director of the UNAIDS Caribbean office Dr Ernest Massiah said, “Zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths could be more than a pipedream if we seize the moment by eliminating mother to child transmission, scaling up evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies, working to eliminate stigma and discrimination and securing a sustained HIV response.”
In a press release, Dr Massiah added that the region has had many successes and the epidemic has slowed considerably since the
