LatAm Marks Advances Against AIDS, Announces Measures for Access to Treatment Latin American Herald Tribune
go to original December 2, 2014

Kofi Annan video address for the 13th Annual General Meeting of PANCAP (Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS). (Kofi Annan)

Thousands of people came together on World AIDS Day in Latin America with countries showing advances made in prevention and awareness against the disease and announcing new measures to widen access to treatment.

Several countries from the region marked the occasion with marches, red balloons and the mass distribution of condoms.

Today 600,000 more people across Latin America receive antiretroviral drugs against the disease than in 2003.

...The Pan Caribbean Partnership on HIV/AIDS announced that the Caribbean countries, where around 250,000 people are infected with HIV, have made significant progress in reducing mother-to-child transmissions.

The United Nations has reported a 54 percent drop in HIV-related deaths in the region.

...According to 2013 United Nations data, about 1.3 million people in Latin America are HIV positive and the “Antiretroviral treatment in the spotlight: a public health analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean 2014” says that 106,000 people were infected with the virus this year, a nine percent drop in 10 years.

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