Professor Brendan Bain is a multifaceted Caribbean man who has brought honour and prestige to the region as a physician and academic. Professor Bain has been outstanding in all three areas in which the University of the West Indies requires its faculty to perform – teaching, research and publications; and service to community. Well-respected and admired, Professor Bain was the inaugural lead coordinator of the UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme and Director of the Regional Coordinating Unit, Caribbean HIV/AIDS regional Training (CHART). In his conversation with Impacting Jamaica host Shelly-Ann Harris, he insightfully points out that when the first cases of HIV had appeared in Jamaica, people didn't believe the virus was real, a behaviour which also initially rang true today as the country and the world presently grapple with COVID-19. Hear more in this interesting edition of Impacting Jamaica. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.