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Caribbean & Central America - June 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)
CARIBBEAN: AIDS leading cause of death in Caribbean
A UN AIDS survey published at the end of May found that the disease was the leading cause of death among adults aged 15 - 44 in the Caribbean. In 2005 approximately 27,000 people died of AIDS, while another 30,000 became infected. A total of 300,000 people are living with AIDS in the Caribbean, making it the second-most affected region in the world after sub-Saharan Africa.
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