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Soroprevalência de HIV , Adulto , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Gravidez , Uruguai/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Combatting AIDS in the Caribbean: A coordinated subregional approach
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida , Estratégias de Saúde Regionais , Região do CaribeRESUMO
PIP: The extent of the HIV epidemic in the Caribbean is described as related to the subregional coordinating project CAREC, or Caribbean epidemiology Center, an agency under Pan American Health Organization, for 19 English speaking countries and Suriname. By July 1990, 1702 AIDS cases had been reported to CAREC, out of 5726 cases in 27 Caribbean countries excluding Puerto Rico. 90% of the cases occurred in the 5 largest, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Initially the transmission pattern was predominantly among male homo- and bisexuals, but not it is mostly heterosexual with a growing mother-to-child transmission. All countries are now screening blood or blood donors. CAREC is coordinating epidemiologic surveillance, helping national laboratories to screen by providing confirmatory tests, providing culture-relevant health education materials and AIDS information, assisting with surveys, holding training workshops for health care workers, and assisting member countries in designing education and counseling programs for high risk women.^ieng
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/prevenção & controle , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/epidemiologia , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/transmissão , Feminino , Educação em Saúde , Planejamento em Saúde , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Índias OcidentaisRESUMO
Published in spanish: Bol. Of. Sanit. Panam 109(2), 1990
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida , Estratégias de Saúde Regionais , Região do CaribeRESUMO
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a problem of major concern in the Caribbean, where it threatens to overburden the already hard-pressed health infrastructure. The disease is advancing rapidly in the region and is exhibiting a changing pattern of transmission that makes it harder to control. This report describes the extent of the problem in the English-speaking Caribbean and Suriname, and outlines the steps being taken in a joint effort being coordinated subregionally to limit the further spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (AU)
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Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Feminino , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/prevenção & controle , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/epidemiologia , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/transmissão , Educação em Saúde , Planejamento em Saúde , Índias OcidentaisRESUMO
Combatting AIDS in the Caribbean: A coordinated subregional approach
Se publica en el Bull. Pan Am. Health Organ 24(3), 1990