by Doreen Mayers

Created on: March 11, 2010

The Caribbean Islands is the Gateway to the United States of America. With easy access to these islands, this allows many Americans to visit these islands frequently; because of the sunshine year round and the white sands beaches these islands supply major activities and attraction to tourist. The Caribbean islands serve as a Winter Retreat for most College Students during Spring Break.  We need to be concern about the health of people with who we interact. The most visited islands in the Caribbean are Jamaica and The Bahamas and these two islands have a large percentage of HIV/AIDS cases.   An estimated number of 240,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. American should be concern about AIDs/HIV in the Caribbean because it does affect American and the way they live because when travelling to these island many can become infected if they are unaware the large number of people infected by this disease.

Many people of Caribbean heritage migrate to the United States and they are becoming Citizens, they are our neighbors and we should be our brother’s keepers. If there are large groups of Infection and deaths in the Caribbean it is very clear that trend will continue to show in numbers of infection and deaths in the United States. Because that many American citizens who visits these islands more often than any place else in the world on vacations, business trips, I think this should be a concern just as much as AIDS/HIV in the United States. Recklessness in sexual behavior has been a major cause of this virus infecting and killing thousand of people. I think that the protection from this disease or any should be a commitment to Health Organizations and Agencies, worldwide.

In 2008 there were about 12,000 deaths caused by HIV. We can see the damage that this virus has caused because of the many children who have lost their parents to AIDS. these children are left alone to take care of themselves. In Haiti the population of kids exceeds that of adults, because many kids has lost their parents to this disease and has become orphans. The most popular islands of the Caribbean have the highest cases of HIV/AIDS and many Americans visits while other lives on these islands during part of the year.

Education: A lack of Education about AIDS/HIV in the Caribbean has been a major cause for the large numbers of HIV in the poor and less educated native in the islands of the Caribbean. The Government of these

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