UNDP HIV programme aims to reach youth in Belize

UNDP is now implementing an HIV/AIDS grant agreement with Belize for programmes that notably aim to treat and prevent the disease among the Central American country's large cohort of teens and young adults.

With an HIV prevalence of 2.1 percent among adults, Belize has the highest HIV prevalence in Central America and the third-highest in the Caribbean after the Bahamas and Haiti, according to a 2007 study. UNAIDS estimates some 3,600 people are currently living with HIV in Belize, 2,000 of them women.

Belize has a total population of just 333,200, 35 percent of whom are younger than 14. To read the full story visit UNDP's website - http://bit.ly/prCHZ1

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• UNDP
• Global Fund Partnership
• Belize
• Global Fund
• HIV
• AIDS
• HIV/AIDS
• NATIONAL AIDS COMMISSION
• MINISTRY OF HEALTH