Brazil
Almost one-third of all persons living with HIV/AIDS in Latin America reside in populous Brazil, where the national adult prevalence rate has remained relatively stable at 0.61 percent since 2000 due to the Government’s continuous, strong commitment to ensuring access to prevention and treatment services. The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of women is 0.42 percent, while the rate of men is 0.82 percent. The rate is lowest in the country’s northern and northeast regions and highest in the southeast and southern regions. Widespread access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) decreased AIDS mortality by half between 1996 and 2002. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV has decreased dramatically, from 16 percent in 1997 to less than 4 percent in 2004. In 2007, an estimated 730,000 people were living with HIV.
With extremely limited resources, USAID/Brazil works strategically and very closely with Brazil’s STI and Viral Hepatitis Department of the Ministry of Health, the Global AIDS Program (GAP)/Brazil of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and key civil society partners to support interventions that address the nature of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil. DN activities include piloting innovative new approaches to promote social integration for people living with HIV/AIDS and providing testing and counseling options for populations most affected by HIV/AIDS. Because the Brazilian Government provides universal access to ART, an increasing number of people infected with HIV are living long, healthy lives. As a result, new strategies are required to meet the needs of this growing population.
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HIV/AIDS Health Profile for Brazil – September 2010 [PDF,
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