HIV Prevention

AIDS Program For The Caribbean And Latin America Set For Expansion

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 2nd, 2001

An AIDS program to help combat the epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean will be expanded through a joint effort of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC).

Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Dr. George Alleyne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), announced after that CDC will expand its Global AIDS Program to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean and Latin America, and will assist CAREC with its HIV prevention efforts throughout the Caribbean.

"In the Caribbean, where HIV rates are the highest in the world...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-07-02)

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