Country Epidemic Information:
Number of people living with HIV: 8 100 [6 500 - 11 000]
Adults aged 15 to 49 prevalence rate: 0.2% [0.1% - 0.2%]
Adults aged 15 and up living with HIV: 7 900 [6 300 - 10 000]
Women aged 15 and up living with HIV: 2 200 [1 700 - 2 900]
Children aged 0 to 14 living with HIV: N/A
Deaths due to AIDS: <500>
Well that is the basic information of my coutry, and talking about laws, there isn't any that prohibits or penalizes homosecuality, even though homosexual marriage is not allowed. Here in Bolivia there is a lot of discrimination, people tend to discriminate homosexuality.
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It looks like there are many more men than women living with HIV in Bolivia (over 3.5 times as many). This is quite different from Sub-Saharan Africa where more women are living with HIV than men.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to know more about the main ways that people become infected with HIV. This might help to explain why there are more men living with HIV than women.
I'm also wondering how discrimination against men who have sex with men may contribute to higher rates of HIV among men in your country.
The last graph on the increase in prevalence of HIV and PLHIV caught my attention. It seems the 90's have witnessed a fast increase in the number of prevalent HIV cases before stabilizing by the end of the decade. Even the incident number of PLHIV from 2000-2007 is half that of 1993-2007.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to attempt to trace these figures and see if they are due to possible successes in HIV reduction intervention or a result of the introduction of reporting techniques and sensitization to the epidemic in the 90's! Nice work :)
Nice Work Alan!!! Fairly complete information. Lia made a comment very important that you should investigate a little more, this allow you to learn much more how is behaving the epidemic in your country.
ReplyDeleteAhma commented regarding the increase in the 90s, in the particular case of latinoamerica often this is due to records that are beginning to lead the country when antiretroviral drugs are introduced and these are paid by the government, I mean, became interested in recording HIV cases from the investment the government makes on the basis of antiretroviral drugs and the incidence of the activists, would be very positive to investigate the matter to see if this is the case of your country or it related to any other fact, Get contact with some leading activist working in the area or a network of PLWHA in your country, maybe they'll give much more detailed information about it. Very interesting Alan! I hope to see your upcoming assignments!
Great work Alan! I echo Lia and Rick's comments about further investigating why more men have HIV than women in Boliva... understanding which sub-populations have the highest prevalence beyond just disaggregating data by male and female (such as men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, sex workers or transgendered people) would help to understand the complexities of the epidemic in your country... but often this data doesn't exist as it is not collected.
ReplyDeleteGreat work so far!!! Looking forward to more :)