This year’s World AIDS Day theme challenges Caribbean policy makers, programme managers and implementers to identify and develop strategies and policies for ‘Closing the Gap’ in resources and to universal access, PANCAP Coordinating Unit Director Dereck Springer says.
In a message to mark World AIDS Day being observed today, Springer notes that this is crucial since the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean provides strong evidence that the groups most vulnerable to HIV and which have the least access to prevention, treatment, care and support services are members of our key population groups including men who have sex with men, sex workers, persons who use drugs and youth.
While there has been significant progress in the region including as regards the elimination of mother-to-child-transmission of
