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iciHaiti - Health : There are about 15,000 Haitian migrants with AIDS in the Dominican Republic
29/08/2019 10:48:29

iciHaiti - Health : There are about 15,000 Haitian migrants with AIDS in the Dominican Republic
Official figures indicate that the prevalence of the AIDS virus in the Dominican part of the island is 0.8% of the population and 2.0% in the Haitian population https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28526-icihaiti-health-fight-against-hiv-aids-the-ministry-not-really-satisfied.html . Therefore, the two countries of the island are currently discussing in Santo Domingo a common strategy to fight the epidemic on the island in the framework of the binational meeting organized in the country under the sponsorship of the National Council for HIV and AIDS (CONAVIHSIDA), the HIV program of the Ministry of Health of Haiti and the Center for Orientation and Integrated Research (COIN) https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28598-icihaiti-health-dr-and-haiti-together-to-eradicate-hiv-virus-by-2030.html

At this meeting, participates a Haitian delegation composed of the HIV Program Project Manager Ministry of Health Haiti, Alande Saturday; Marie Carmelle Alliot Lue, Project Manager of the Tuberculosis Program; Steeve McAllan from MARP (Most At Risk People); Pavel Desrosiers, Executive Director, Communicable Disease Coordination Unit, and Jetho Guerrier, Data Manager

Tuesday at a press conference it was revealed that the number of Haitian migrants living with the AIDS virus in the Dominican Republic was estimated at 15,000 and that a census was planned at the national level to determine the exact number of people from Haitian origin infected.

In the Dominican Republic, about 70,000 citizens live with HIV and most of them receive anti-retroviral treatment. An estimated 340,000 people are living with the virus in the Caribbean.

See also :
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28598-icihaiti-health-dr-and-haiti-together-to-eradicate-hiv-virus-by-2030.html
https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-28526-icihaiti-health-fight-against-hiv-aids-the-ministry-not-really-satisfied.html

SL/ iciHaiti



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