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By Heather-Lynn Evanson
February 9, 2019
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(NATION OF BARBADOS) – The Caribbean has moved from the second highest rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV to non-transmission certification.
Dr. Godrey Xuereb, representative of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, said that this had occurred in just two decades.
Xuereb spoke at the opening ceremony of the Joint International Conference on the Global Pediatric Project and the Pan American Health and Rotary Conference, which took place Wednesday at Radisson Aquatica.
He told his audience of medical practitioners and Rotarians that the Eastern Caribbean was one of the first regions in the world to be certified as having eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and conbad syphilis. (HLE)
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