PMID: 15377067Sep 21, 2004Paper

Epidemiology of HIV infection: twenty-years of experience

Revista de investigación clínica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutrición
Leticia M Pérez-Saleme, Griselda Hernández-Tepichin

Abstract

In the 20 years since the isolation of HIV, an overwhelming amount of information about this entity has come up and transform this disease into a chronic and manageable one. In spite of all this knowledge, failure to prevent new infections is still common in many parts of the world, especially those acquired by sexual and intravenous drug use. Sub-Saharan Africa is still the most affected region of the world, where the meridional region presents the largest incidence of all (30%) and contains only 2% of the world population. Asia and Eastern Europe epidemics are still growing, mostly because IVU drug use and sexual commerce. Latin America presents an epidemic concentrated to high risk behavioral groups, especially in South America. Mexico has 71,526 registered cases; the most them between 25-34 years, 51% have died up to date. The main route of transmission is sexual. A lot is still to come in the future years, but we have to pay special attention to the prevention of this disease.

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