This year's World AIDS Day theme "Know Your Status" encourages people to be tested to know whether they are HIV Negative or Positive.

The Director of the PAN Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS said this theme is very relevant as the world has committed to fast track actions towards achieving the 90-90-90 treatment targets by the year 2020.

The UNAIDS 2018 Global AIDS Monitoring (GAM) Report informs us that there is an estimated 310,000 adults and children living with HIV in the Caribbean, of which nearly 55,000 are unaware that they have HIV.

He said while many people experience anxieties when contemplating being tested, it is good to know that the majority of these will test HIV Negative.

The 2018 UNAIDS GAM Report also helps us to understand that we still need to place 74,400 persons who are living with HIV on treatment and 103,000 are yet to achieve viral suppression, that is, having very low levels of virus in the body, even though the virus is still present.

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