HIV/AIDS in Latin America - Statistics & Facts
Diagnoses of the human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) continue to strongly affect people living with the disease. However, with new policies, prevention, and treatment, progression of HIV is no longer the public health threat that it once was. Nonetheless, while annual AIDS-related death rates continue to sink worldwide, the disease disproportionately burdens the public health of some regions, including Latin America. Ranging from 0.4 percent in Colombia to 1.9 percent in Haiti, the region is home to some of the countries (outside Africa) with the highest prevalence of HIV among adult population.
