The Caribbean is the only developing region that has approached near-universal provision of medication to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child, according to the annual UNAIDS report on AIDS but it also names Guyana as one of several countries that have seen increases in risky sexual behaviour.
This year’s Annual World AIDS Day report also says that children born with HIV declined significantly in the Caribbean from 2009 to 2011 by 32% and that the sharpest decline in new HIV infections was seen in the Caribbean, down 42% between 2001 and 2011. There was also a decline of 48% (representing the highest decline of any region) in AIDS-related