REPORTED
DEATHS OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
BY COUNTRY AND YEAR
WITH CRUDE MORTALITY RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION
CAREC MEMBER COUNTRIES
JANUARY 1997 TO DECEMBER 1998 |
|
Country
|
YEAR
|
| 1997 |
1998 |
| Deaths |
Rate |
Deaths |
Rate |
| Anguilla |
- |
na |
- |
na |
| Antigua & Barbuda |
7 |
10.4 |
4 |
6.0 |
| Bahamas |
262 |
92.3 |
206c
|
46.5 |
| Barbados |
105 |
39.8 |
114 |
43.0 |
| Belize |
- |
na |
- |
na |
| Bermuda |
9 |
4.0 |
19 |
8.2 |
| Cayman Islands |
0 |
0.0 |
1 |
2.9 |
| Dominica |
4 |
5.6 |
10 |
14.1 |
| Grenada |
7 |
7.5 |
0b
|
0.0 |
| Guyana |
69 |
8.1 |
20c
|
2.3 |
| Jamaica |
393 |
15.5 |
377 |
14.7 |
| Montserrat |
0 |
0.0 |
0 |
0.0 |
| Saint Lucia |
13 |
8.9 |
8 |
5.4 |
| St. Christopher/Nevis |
2b
|
4.5 |
- |
na |
| St. Vincent & the Grenadines |
22 |
18.5 |
44 |
37.0 |
| Suriname |
- |
na |
- |
na |
| Trinidad & Tobago |
67a
|
5.3 |
- |
na |
| Turks & Caicos Is. |
- |
na |
- |
na |
| Virgin Islands U.K. |
2
|
11.1 |
1c
|
5.3 |
| Sub-Regional Total/Rates |
962
|
14.7 |
1258 |
19.0 |
|
a Report received for 1st Quarter
only., na = not applicable, - = No data
b Report received for 1st and 2nd Quarters only.
c Report received for 1st to 3rd Quarters only.
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Data Source: Quarterly AIDS Surveillance
Reports submitted to CAREC's Epidemiology Division by CAREC member countries.
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