<div><p>The U.N. agency leading the fight against AIDS says preventive health programs in the Caribbean must be strengthened.</p><p>Karen Sealey is the chief of UNAIDS Caribbean. She says prevention needs to improve "to achieve an increase in knowledge about HIV," the virus that causes AIDS.</p><p>Sealey made the comments Thursday night in Port-of-Spain as she released the latest UNAIDS report.</p><p>Among other findings, the report concludes that discrimination against patients remains a problem in the Caribbean, where efforts to distribute condoms in schools have met bitter opposition on some islands.</p><p>The region, led by AIDS-plagued Haiti, has the second-highest infection rate outside of sub-Saharan Africa.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=38189373&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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