‘Alarming fact’ about some with HIV

DESPITE progress in managing the disease over the last decade, health authorities are concerned about the “alarming fact” that many people with HIV are being diagnosed at a late stage when they have already developed AIDS.
This concern was voiced yesterday by acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand during a ceremony marking Regional HIV/AIDS Testing Day at the Carlton Complex, St Michael.
This initiative was developed by the Barbados-based Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS with support from Scotiabank in collaboration with the Pan Caribbean Partnership on HIV/AIDS (PANCAP).
Ferdinand described the event, now in its seventh year, as an annual campaign to encourage people of all ages to get tested so they could take control of their future.