VIH y SIDA en las Americas. Una epidemia multifacetica. (Other Material: Profamilia).Washington, DC: PAHO/UNAIDS, 2001. 57 p. HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and AIDS in the Americas. A Multifaceted Epidemic is a report from the meeting of Networks Monitoring the AIDS Epidemic and Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Latin America In Latin America, only Guatemala and Honduras have national HIV prevalence of over 1%. In these countries, HIV-infected men outnumber HIV-infected women by roughly 3:1. Lower prevalence in other countries disguises serious, localized epidemics. and the Caribbean (EpiRed, for its name in Spanish). Included in this publication is a brief panorama of the evolution of the pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. worldwide, its impact in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. , the Andean Region, Brazil, the Southern Cone and North America. Other epidemics of sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis are also addressed. * For more information, visit PAHO's website: www.paho.org |
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