To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

The Di­vi­sion of Health is ex­press­ing alarm over “high rates” of sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted in­fec­tions (STIs) in To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly HIV, among the 20-29 age group.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, Oni­ka Hen­ry, se­nior pro­gramme co­or­di­na­tor for sex­u­al health and youth de­vel­op­ment at the De­part­ment of Well­ness, Pre­ven­tion and Health Pro­mo­tion, said HIV in­fec­tions are ris­ing on the is­land. Apart from un­ac­cept­able HIV lev­els, Hen­ry said gon­or­rhoea and syphilis are al­so soar­ing on the is­land and glob­al­ly.