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Daily News (12.15.03) - Thursday, December 18, 2003
Joyce Shelby
"With HIV infection rates in the Caribbean among the highest in the world, and migration between there and the United States continuing at a steady pace, efforts like [these] are important to people in both areas," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a statement the hospital released on Dec. 12.
The projects will initially involve people in or from Trinidad and Tobago, a two-island republic with a population of 1.4 million. Eventually, the hospital hopes to offer them to other islands.
Dr. David John, medical director of the Caribbean-American Family Health Center in East Flatbush, said that last year, 1,500 new cases of HIV were reported in Trinidad and Tobago. "At the end of 2001, there were between 17,000 and 20,000 people living with HIV/AIDS that we know of," he said, but only six identified health care providers.
Lutheran will spend $2 million over four years to train community health workers for Trinidad and Tobago, using classes, lectures, and programs students can access via computer. The hospital also hopes to develop a certification process. In Brooklyn, Lutheran will develop a culturally sensitive peer support program for people with HIV/AIDS from Trinidad and Tobago, less than 50 percent of whom now access regular health care, John said.
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