11:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health|Latin America · Comments Off
18 Apr 2007
Yesterday the World Health Organization announced that 72% of those infected with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean are receiving treatment, the largest percentage in the “third world”. The announcement was made at the fourth Latin America and Caribbean forum in HIV AIDS held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The percentage of those being treated in Latin America and the Caribbean means that about 355,000 people out of the 490,000 known cases of HIV are being treated. This is a huge jump. In 2003 only 210,000 cases were being treated.
The increase in treatment is attributed to the lowering cost of treatment drugs.
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