Aids in the CAREC member countries: a statistical update

ABSTRACT

Between the years 1982 and 1991, 3,132 cases of AIDS and 1,963 deaths were reported to CAREC by its 19 member countries. A year-to-year comparison indicates that the rapid increase in cases continued in 1991, the number reported for that year being 34 percent higher than the figure for 1990. Six countries, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago accounted for 90 percent of all reported cases (AU)