Good news for local AIDS fight

THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO, doctors in United States identified the first case of what we now know as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. At that time, the health community and medical researchers had been baffled by the virus that causes the disease.

Since those gloomy early days there have been major achievements in fighting this new-age plague. The world has reached the stage where there is clear evidence that not only can HIV be controlled, but even eliminated amongst a segment of the population; our children. So, the news reported in the WEEKEND NATION from Dr Ernest Massiah of UNAIDS Caribbean that Barbados may be the first country to reach this milestone is a really big deal and will be an achievement worth celebrating. Even if it is not the first country to have this grand distinction, simply getting there will be a joyous occasion.

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