23 March 2017

A counsellor at the local AIDS Secretariat [in Antigua and Barbuda] said that its records have shown a reverse trend in the transmission of the HIV virus, as the rate of infection among females has increased. Oswald Hannays said the discovery is worthy of note because, “where in the early [stages] you had perhaps five to six males for every female that were infected, we now have an almost even one to one ratio.” The secretariat reported that 55 new cases were found in 2016 and the ages of those infected still range from 15 to 49, notwithstanding that older persons are being diagnosed.

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