While Guyana is on track to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and AIDS in another year, Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton on Wednesday made the worrying disclosures that every year there are about 500 new cases of persons infected by the virus and another 200 die from related complications.
Norton, who was speaking at a press conference at his ministry to discuss the upcoming United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, said Guyana remains at second place behind Sub-Saharan Africa as the most affected by the virus. It is estimated that about 8,000 Guyanese are living with the virus but some of them are unaware of their status.
And according to UNAIDS, in 2015 about three of every five persons living with HIV were
