UWI releases landmark study on the impact of criminal laws on sexual minorities in Guyana

In 2010, 13 percent of HIV positive pregnant women and two percent of HIV exposed infants did not receive antiretroviral medication in order to prevent transmission. An estimated 15 percent of pregnant women living with HIV continue to elude the programme. 

As Guyana prepares for national consultations on laws that discriminate against LGBT people, one advocate reflects on the role of civil society in pushing governments to do more.

Never before have the tools to stop HIV been so diverse. But “getting to zero” new HIV infections is far from a done deal. That’s because primary prevention isn’t working well

In Say your piece the first installment of a monthly podcast series about HIV and human rights in the Caribbean, two HIV positive Trinidadian women share what it took for their babies to be born HIV free.

From 2007 to 2010 Barbados had no HIV positive babies on record. In 2010 there were no cases of paediatric HIV infection in the Bahamas and only one in Antigua and Barbuda.