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PANCAP and the HIV/AIDS challenge in the Caribbean

Discrimination, including the flouting of the most basic widespread human rights, is still widespread for those living with HIV/AIDS.

And while we have seen real progress across the board, five more people still contract the virus for every two who start treatment.

Despite the tremendous efforts of PANCAP, the Caribbean has not been spared.

Indeed, with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, the region faces the greatest HIV/AIDS challenge.

via PANCAP and the HIV/AIDS challenge in the Caribbean – Stabroek News – Guyana.

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Cholera in rural Haiti overwhelms clinics

A gray-haired woman, her eyes sunken and unfocused from dehydration, stumbles up a dirt path slumped on the shoulder of a young man, heading to a rural clinic so overcrowded that plastic tarps have been strung up outside to shade dozens who can’t fit inside.

via Cholera in rural Haiti overwhelms clinics – The China Post.

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Haitians See Pregnancies Rise in Quake Relief Camps

Since a January earthquake in Haiti, tent camps have become home to hundreds of thousands of people, including newly pregnant women. Some Haitians fear unplanned pregnancies in the camps may fuel a baby boom in the capital.

via VOA | Haitians See Pregnancies Rise in Quake Relief Camps | Americas | English.

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Haiti: More Cholera Cases, Fewer Deaths

The World Health Organization reports the number of cholera cases continues to grow in Haiti, but a smaller proportion of people are now dying from the disease. Latest official figures put the number of deaths at nearly 1,900 and more than 84,000 cases.

via VOA | Haiti: More Cholera Cases, Fewer Deaths | Health | English.

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Caribbean ignoring “Aids rights”

Countries of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) have a long way to go in responding to the human rights challenges posed by HIV/Aids.

That is the gist of messages to mark World Aids Day 2010, whose theme is “Universal Access and Human Rights”.

“We have for the most part focused on bio-medical responses to the exclusion of the socio-economic and legal responses required to prevent the risk of HIV to our most-at-risk communities,” the Caricom secretariat said.

via BBCCaribbean.com | Caribbean ignoring “Aids rights”.