The Caribbean AIDS Epidemic
Author: Glenford D. Howe
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789766400880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an examination of the Caribbean AIDS epidemic.
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Education and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
Author: Michael J. Kelly
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9766371806
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Whilst a cure for HIV/AIDS continues to elude scientists, the number of HIV/AIDS cases continues to increase. Education becomes the key to curtailing the spread of the disease. Education and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean describes the impact of HIV/AIDS on education in both the global and Caribbean contexts and outlines the lessons to be learnt from the global experience. The aim of the book is not only to highlight the role of education in HIV/AIDS prevention but also to look specifically at the education sector, its role and response, as well as the management of the response. It also intends to ensure that the education sector recognises the crucial role it must play in reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS. The text is complete with illustrations on the socioeconomic, health and gender aspects of the disease, and is a useful resource for anyone wanting to obtain precise information about the impact of the disease in the Caribbean. "
HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780821349212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is estimated in this region that more than half a million people are infected with HIV. Efforts are needed if inroads are to be made against the AIDS epidemic. Although many Caribbean governments have initiated a limited response to HIV/AIDS much remains to be done. This report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. It presents a snapshot of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region and offers examples of ways in which Caribbean countries and regional bodies such as the Caribbean Community have responded to the epidemic, discusses alternative actions for addressing the crisis and highlights a range of strategies for donor coordination and cooperation in the region. Finally the report identifies the potential role of the World Bank in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean
HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean
Author: Barbara A Dicks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 113639608X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamine the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that affect HIV/AIDS prevention/service delivery issues for Caribbean youth!This groundbreaking book provides an overview and informed discussion of HIV/AIDS as it affects children and adolescents in Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, and The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. With contributions from noted HIV/AIDS experts in the region, it examines the biopsychosocial, environmental, spiritual, and policy issues that impact HIV/AIDS prevention/service delivery issues for Caribbean youth. HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean breaks the silence on this subject that has existed throughout the Caribbean--second only to Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of the number of people infected with the disease--by focusing attention on the issues, needs, perspectives, policies, and research that impact those affected by the epidemic in that region. This unique book gives special attention to the distinctive differences among Caribbean countries with varying customs based on colonial influences including language, culture, traditions, and religion. User-friendly tables and figures make the statistical information easy to understand.HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean discusses a diversity of topics, including: psycho-cultural issues and adolescents the impact of dance hall music on HIV and adolescents school programs evaluation of residential placements for children with AIDS sexual risk-taking behaviors of Jamaican street boys the inaugural lecture on AIDS at the University of the West Indies . . . and much more. Everyone whose professional life brings them into contact with this population, including social workers, psychologists, counselors, clinicians, nurses and other health care professionals, as well as educators and their students will find HIV/AIDS and Children in the English Speaking Caribbean a very useful resource for understanding the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS virus on children and adolescents in that part of the world.
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Caribbean
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Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverview: -- The Caribbean's first case of what was later identified as AIDS was officially recorded in Jamaica in 1982.9 -- As of the end of 2008, an estimated 240,000 people were living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, and in 2007, more than three-quarters of people living with HIV/AIDS lived in the two countries of Hispaniola Island - Dominican Republic and Haiti. -- The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the region (1.0% in 2008) is second only to sub-Saharan Africa (5.2%) and higher than the global prevalence rate (0.8%). However, the prevalence rate in the Caribbean remained stable at 1.0% between 2001 and 2008. Rates among countries vary from a low of 0.1% in Cuba to a high of 3.0% in the Bahamas. -- There were 20,000 new HIV infections in the region in 2008 and 12,000 deaths. AIDS is one of the Caribbean's leading causes of death among those aged 25-44. -- HIV is spread primarily through heterosexual sex in the Caribbean, with commercial sex playing a large role in many places, although transmission patterns vary across the region and within countries. While sex between men is also an important factor in HIV transmission in the region, stigma and discrimination make it difficult to assess the extent of its role and to reach those at risk. Injecting drug use plays a small role in transmission in most countries in the region, with the exception of Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where injecting drug use is the key factor in transmission. -- There are signs of potential stabilization of HIV prevalence and/or reductions in some countries, including the Bahamas, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
Challenging HIV and AIDS
Author: Michael Morrissey
Publisher: United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are an estimated 42 million people worldwide living with HIV and AIDS. In the Caribbean, the statistics are alarming. After sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean has a higher HIV prevalence than any other area of the world. The need to control the spread of HIV is critical. Though medical advances have been successful in slowing the progress of the disease, there remains no cure for HIV and AIDS. In Challenging HIV and AIDS, the contributors, players at various levels in the education sector across the Caribbean, weigh in on the value of education as a means to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS. The contributions are unique to the Caribbean experience and culture and address the root causes of the spread of the epidemic. Reducing ignorance and the accompanying stigma and discrimination as well as addressing issues of sexuality through Health and Family Life Education in schools are identified as effective programs in addressing the epidemic.
The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America
Author: Shawn C. Smallman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 146960678X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the pandemic. He demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. In Latin America, Smallman explains, the AIDS pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics, driven by different factors in each country. Examining cultural issues and public policies at the country, regional, and global levels, he discusses why HIV has had such a heavy impact on Honduras, for instance, while leaving the neighboring state of Nicaragua relatively untouched, and why Latin America as a whole has kept infection rates lower than other global regions, such as Africa and Asia. Smallman draws on the most recent scientific research as well as his own interviews with AIDS educators, gay leaders, drug traffickers, crack addicts, transvestites, and doctors in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. Highlighting the realities of gender, race, sexuality, poverty, politics, and international relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Smallman brings a fresh perspective to understanding the cultures of the region as well as the global AIDS crisis.
A Study of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP)
Author: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis case study documents the experience of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against AIDS (PANCAP) to mobilize the response to AIDS in the region. It highlights both the Partnership's successes as well as the challenges it continues to face in supporting effective action on AIDS in all of its 29 countries. Divided into 12 chapters, which cover some of the following areas, including: the background to the AIDS crises; the regional response, and how PANCAP has managed such a response, along with projections of what PANCAP needs to accomplish in the future.
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
Author: George Clement Bond
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0429970978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historical contexts.
HIV/AIDS and Mobile Populations in the Caribbean
Author: Rosilyne Borland
Publisher: International Org. for Migration
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiven the high level of population movement and the high prevalence of HIV infection in theCaribbean, the link between mobility and the spread of HIV/AIDS is an important dimension ofthe region's epidemic. The Caribbean now ranks secondonly to sub-Saharan Africa as the most affected region in the world. Many of the same factorsthat drive the spread of HIV/AIDS also drive migration, such as unbalanced distribution ofresources, unemployment, political instability and conflict. Recognizing the above, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Santo Domingo hasundertaken HIV/AIDS and Mobil.
