AIDS Threat Still Looming
By Emilio Godoy | Inside Costa Rica
MEXICO CITY (IPS) - The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains stable in Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly affecting high-risk groups like gay men and sex workers, according to the UNAIDS report for 2008, released Tuesday.
Last year, 140,000 new infections were reported in the region, bringing the total number of people living with HIV to 1.7 million, while 63,000 people died of AIDS-related causes in 2007.
César Núñez, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) director for Latin America, said at the presentation of the report that “this is not a small, controlled epidemic,” and recommended heavy emphasis on prevention measures.
The U.N. agency’s 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic identifies Brazil and Mexico (Latin America’s most populous countries) as having the largest number of cases: 800,000 and 200,000, respectively.
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