Together with maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions, communicable diseases accounted for 13 per cent of total deaths in Antigua and Barbuda across all age groups in 2008. A government paper on HIV/AIDS reported a cumulative 815 HIV cases (201 deaths) in the period 1985-2009. Antigua and Barbuda is a non-endemic country for malaria. Estimated incidences of tuberculosis (TB) doubled in the period 1990-2012.
Estimated mortality (when mortality data excludes cases co-morbid with HIV) from TB fluctuated slightly in the period 1998-2012 but more than halved between 1990 and 2012.
