AIDS in the islands???

I had Human Sexuality as part of my major last semester, and this is what our course packet says. It doesnt apply directly to the USVI, but just to the Caribbean. The inclusion of countries like Haiti must really affect the statistics for such a small region of the world, I would think. I was in Haiti in '02 and the AIDS epidemic there is so sad, and very prevalent...

"In Latin America and the Caribbean, eleven countries have generalized AIDS epidemics (sort of like a declared state of emergency). Haiti has an adult prevalence rate of 5.6%, which is the highest in the region. That means that 5.6% of all citizens over the age of fifteen have full-blown AIDS. The AIDS adult prevalence rate in the entire Caribbean alone is the second highest of any region in the world (second only to sub-Saharan Africa). 2.3% of all people over the age of fifteen in the Caribbean have AIDS (in the US it is only 0.6% and Europe is 0.3% if that helps to make acomparison.) That means that in 2004, there are 430,000 cases of AIDS in the Caribbean islands, and 52,000 of those cases were newly infected in the past year. (therefore, one percent of the entire world's AIDS population lives in the Caribbean Islands). Of that infected group, half of the newly infected are between the ages of fifteen and twenty four, and 49% of them are female (again the second highest statisic, in the US only 25% of infections are female)." Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2004.