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It is unseemly, disgusting and sickening!

On June 2, 3006 UNAIDS report for the Caribbean revealed that AIDS-related illnesses are the leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 44 in the Caribbean, accounting for 27,000 deaths in 2005, . Further although Bahamas, Barbados, the Dominican Republic and Haiti showed they had "dented the progress of HIV" that region still remained seconds only to Africa as it regards infection rates. More alarming data from the UNAIDS reports show that at the end of 2005 approximately 330,000 HIV-positive people were living in the Caribbean. Particularly, -22,000 of whom were children -51% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the region are women - an estimated 37,000 new HIV cases were reported in the Caribbean in 2005 -12% of reported HIV cases in the Caribbean result from homosexual and unprotected sex. -in region only 25% of people needing antiretroviral drugs was receiving them - In Trinidad and Tobago, females ages 15 to 19 were six times as likely to be HIV-positive than their