HIV/AIDS Transmission and Prevention in Trinidad & Tobago by Ifreke Williams

My decision to come to Trinidad and Tobago was influenced by my personal experiences working with HIV/AIDS patients and as a peer health educator on HIV/AIDS prevention. During my last year in college, I was a research assistant at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, and my duties included recruiting HIV positive patients at an infectious diseases clinic for a research study. I was very bothered by my experiences in that clinic, one being the fact that 90% of the patients I saw in the clinic were people of African descent. By interacting with them, they opened up to me and told me how they got infected. The vast majority of them said they got infected through intravenous drug use as Baltimore city has a serious drug problem, but the rest of them mostly got infected from having unprotected sex and many said they lacked previous knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention. Read More Here