There has been a decline in the number of AIDS cases among people under the age of 30.
AIDS cases in the under-20 age category have remained constant, but the concentration has shifted from girls to boys.
This news came from Curtis Pilgrim, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development, as he spoke at the Education Sector HIV?Policy Development Workshop yesterday at UN House, Hastings, Christ Church.
Pilgrim said that because of the developments, the Barbados National HIV Prevention Action Plan 2010 had been targeting youths as they were identified as the more at-risk groups.
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