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In Latin America remains the tragedy of AIDS and urging the prevention.
Bogota, July 14 .- In Latin America, where it keeps the drama of those affected by HIV / AIDS with no exact figures for the number of people unfamiliar to their status as carriers of the virus causing the disease, prevention is an emergency.
In the prelude to World AIDS Conference to be held in Vienna, American data show that the epidemic has been present, jumpgate evolution credits, for three decades, persists despite public and private efforts.
The final 2008 report of the Joint United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) stressed countries like Brazil and Mexico for his leadership in the field of prevention, but urged "to strengthen the surveillance systems in Latin America" and one " most solid evidence for planning national HIV prevention. "
Recently the, fallen earth chips, director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, general talk about the urgency of "a revolution in prevention, especially in vulnerable demographic segments.
"The fact that for every two people who we treated other five are spread" evidence, in his view, "we have to mobilize the force to promote prevention."
And preventive measures, I believe, should be directed particularly to women in, global agenda credits, middle-income countries and low, among which there are a large part of new infections and deaths from the disease, although the treatment indices have multiplied by 10 in the last five years.
The UNAIDS report, whose figures differ from those submitted by the Governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighted this region as home of the epidemic of "low level" and "concentrated."
According to the general data of the report, the region is about two million people living with HIV, of whom about 170,000 are newly infected, and until 2008 have been recorded 77 000 deaths from the disease of AIDS.
The Caribbean region after sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected by HIV, with the second highest adult prevalence in the world, 1%, but notes that the number of new infections has stabilized.
In the Caribbean 240 000 living with the virus, 20,000 are newly infected and about 12,000 people have died from the disease.
The most significant case is that of Haiti, where some ten million people, about 2.2% of the population is affected by AIDS.
It is the highest proportion of America, according to international agencies have warned about the possible spread of the virus after the earthquake of January 12.
In the Dominican Republic, according to the Presidential Council on AIDS (co-chair), it is estimated that 48,000 adults living with the disease, while in Cuba there are 11 994 cases diagnosed and died 2063.
Brazil has 506 499 registered AIDS patients, with 205 409 deaths, between 1980 and 2008, but officials maintain that the incidence has remained stable, thanks to the care and prevention plans implemented more than ten years in the network public health.
From 1981 until November 2009 in Mexico, 135 003 have been recorded cases of disease development, although the National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control (Census) estimates that, to date,existed 220,000 people are infected with HIV, of which about 59% are unaware they are infected.
Registration in Colombia to the 26,000 people with AIDS, but projections indicate that the actual figure could lie between 170,000 and 220,000 cases, according to the office of High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which calculates the number of deaths since 1983 at about 24,000.
In Argentina, people infected with HIV is estimated at 120,000, of which 50% know that they are carrying the virus, and the Foundation for Study and Research on Women (FEIM) estimated to have killed around 25,000 people every year are diagnosed between 5,000 and 6,000 new cases with a "feminization" of the disease, especially in young people of 15-24 years.
In Venezuela, health circles handled the figure of 110,000 cases. For Unicef the number of infected could be 400,000.
In Peru, until September 2009, the number of AIDS patients amounted to 25 340, while other 39 165 people carry the virus.
In Chile, from 1984-2007, according to official figures, cases of HIV carriers were 18 552 and 5710 deaths were recorded.
The Priority Programme for STD / AIDS in Uruguay in April 2010 revealed that there are about 10,000 people infected with HIV, a figure that has remained stable in recent years.
In Paraguay, where the first cases date back to 1985, the authorities concerned have found 7932 to December 2009, comprising 35.5% disease development.
Similarly, the Ministry of Health of Bolivia recognizes, until March 2010, 5834 cases reported and a number of new infections in 2010 of 295, double the previous year.
The same Ministry of Ecuador reported that in 2009 had a total of 4041 HIV-positive people and 1,295 of these cases developed the disease.
In Central America, the numbers of patients with AIDS range from 28,000 to Honduras, 24,756 in El Salvador, or 20 488 in Guatemala, where the National Centre for Epidemiology reports that are posted around 6,500 new cases of infected each year.
In Panama, from 1984 until December 2009, there have been 10 381 cases, and those who died because of the epidemic are 7005, while in Nicaragua the number of carriers is 4784.