How common is HIV/AIDS in Barbados????

Great events make fascinating history; but commonplace occurrences often have greater influence on our lives.
Historian have recorded that the First World War of 1914 to 1918 took a terrible . toll of eight million lives. Few recall, however, that the influenza epidemic that broke out after the war killed twenty million people.

It is not unknown for epidemics to devastate nations and regions.

The present pandemic of HIV/AIDS could however make all previous epidemics look trifling by comparison. For HIV/AIDS is not just a health crisis. It is an economic and social threat that could lead to a planetary catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. It has the potential to reverse the social and economic achievements of the last half century and to engender a state of global insecurity in which governments fall and societies crumble.

This Special Session of the UN General Assembly on HIV/AIDS is timely. Let us hope it is not too late. To be sure, we do not have a moment to lose.

The Caribbean has the highest number of reported AIDS cases in the Americas. Its rate of HIV infection is second only to that of Sub-Saharan Africa, which has borne the worst brunt of the disease. Even more ominous, HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death among young people in the Caribbean.


http://www.un.org/ga/aids/statements/doc...

not so high, but you still need to be careful.
in 2007, 3,200 people were living with it.

look at this link for more info :

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/global?page=cr...