Guyana is unable to cope with the AIDS virus

In a report entitled "The epidemic of HIV infection in Guyana: a political problem" and made public Monday, March 17, the National AIDS Council (CNS) said that the department is "widespread epidemic situation: over 1% of pregnant women are infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), a situation similar to that of some African countries. " Guyana knows the prevalence rate the highest in France. In 2006, the rate per million inhabitants discovery of HIV infection was 308 to 150 against in Ile-de-France. After those of 1996 and 2003, this is the third report that the CNS dedicated to the fight against the epidemic of HIV infection in Guyana. That of a 2003 alarmed "active and uncontrolled epidemic for which no response was structured and adapted made." In his new report, the CNS considers the situation "unacceptable from the viewpoint of health goals, both national de la France". For him, "stigma and discrimination are still being people living with HIV constitute barriers to screening, prevention and care". The CNS said that the Caribbean is the second region in the world most affected by Africa after the epidemic of HIV infection. " Guyana there is "a relative island of wealth in the midst of poor countries or poor border areas of emerging countries." As a result, it "has a profile consistent with the epidemic situation in the region, exacerbated by the importance of economic migration to the department, which by definition involve insecure populations from countries with high prevalence." Guyana has a population "mixed", "living in areas identified in the department," the report says. This "contributes to the splitting of public space and policy" and engages in "shackles", which the National AIDS Council considers that they "must not, however, justify the withholding of local and national development strategies and instruments deployed against the epidemic. " Discovering too late infection with the AIDS virus, sub-medical staff, medical aging demographics, precarious living conditions of many of the people in charge are some of the factors which weaken the fight against the epidemic. Which adds "the policy against illegal migration (which) is not conducive to easy access to care and shapes too often the approach to the epidemic at the expense of public health considerations," according to the CNS. It invites them to work in three areas: developing a "political efforts up to the challenge," develop "a concerted steering the fight against the epidemic" and "improve the public health response." For NSC, "the minister responsible for overseas needs, with the Minister for Health, bear these changes at a time when a new law programme for the overseas is being prepared."