US pulls HIV funding from hard-hit Caribbean countries
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The United States is terminating its funding to several of the Caribbean countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Directors of the US President’s Emergency Fund for...
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No Judgment SKN: A movement to change a culture of sexual violence in St. Kitts & Nevis
ST. KITTS & NEVIS — According to the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Caribbean’s rates of sexual violence are significantly higher...
Concerns of Zika Spread with Lack of Funding to Combat Virus
The virus known as Zika continues to affect 42+ countries and territories that have confirmed local, vector-borne transmission of the virus. Areas include Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America,...
Vaginal rings may be a powerful tool for women in HIV prevention
FOR SOME WOMEN, the power to negotiate safe sex is not always within their control. Whether through coercion, force or partner reticence, women’s HIV prevention efforts are usually...
The problem with Zika pregnancy advisories
SINCE NOVEMBER 2015, the Zika virus has been confirmed in the Caribbean in Barbados, Suriname, Guyana, Martinique, Haiti, Jamaica, Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin,...
CARPHA calls for coordinated Caribbean response to Zika
PORT OF SPAIN — On February 1st, 2016, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared that clusters of microcephaly and other neurological disorders...
