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HIV/AIDS has devastated the Caribbean, which ranks second only to sub- Saharan Africa for AIDS prevalence. In 2006, the United Nations estimated that 19,000 Caribbeans died of AIDS, and that an additional 250,000 were living with the virus. In 2005, there were a reported 38,133 new HIV diagnoses among Caribbean Americans in the U.S. From the Leadership Campaign on AIDS and the Department of Health and Human Services http://www.omhrc.gov/Assets/pdf/Checked/Caribbean.pdf
Health and Human Services AIDS National Caribbean American HIV & AIDS Awareness Day http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/caribbeanamerican/
http://www.avert.org/caribbean.htm
http://www.caribbeanhealthaidsday.com/
http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/research/portfolio/2008/Myers-EC-CAP.pdf