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Review: Together We Can [TWC] Peer Education Programme

According to UNAIDS most recent report, “although it [HIV] accounts for a relatively small share of the global epidemic, the Caribbean has been more heavily affected by HIV than any region outside sub-Saharan Africa,….. with the second highest level of adult HIV prevalence. …. Although sharp declines in HIV incidence were reported in some Caribbean countries earlier this decade, the latest evidence suggests that the regional rate of new HIV infections has stabilized.” The Caribbean has a mixture of generalized epidemics (HIV prevalence is consistently over 1 percent in pregnant women) and concentrated epidemics (HIV prevalence is consistently over 5 percent in at least one defined sub-population and below 1 percent in pregnant women in urban areas). Women account for approximately half of all infections in the Caribbean. HIV prevalence is especially elevated among adolescent and young women, who tend to have infection rates significantly higher than males their own age (United States Agency for International Development, 2008).