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Big Problems Among Small Islands

Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2001;285:2961-2963.

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Bilali Camara, MD, MPH, has 36 million reasons for the United Nations General Assembly to carefully consider the Caribbean region when it meets next week to discuss HIV/AIDS for the first time.

The Caribbean's English-speaking countries, a focus of tourism and trade, are populated by a mere 6 million people. Add those who reside in the Spanish-, French-, and Dutch-speaking countries and the region's population soars to 36 million. "People do not take this into consideration," said Camara, who heads the Special Program on Sexually Transmitted Infections of the Caribbean Epidemiology Center (CAREC) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. "The reality is, if you add us all together, we are not small anymore." (See sidebar below.)

The United Nations special session on HIV/AIDS, to be held June 25-27 in New York City, is intended to join global leaders in a commitment to step up comprehensive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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