2023-12-05 17:07:43
According to data from the latest UNAIDS report, there are more women in the world with HOW what men. In Latin America, according to Brenda Crabtree, infectious disease specialist and HIV researcher at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City, “the prevalence of infection is much higher in the focus groups: homosexual men, sex workers, users of injection drugs and transgender women.”
20% of AIDS cases correspond to women and girls
Latin America is one of the regions that has experienced an increase in recent decades. Of the 340 thousand people who were estimated to be living with AIDS in Mexico in 2019, almost 20 percent of the reported cases corresponded to women and girls, according to data from the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS (Censida).
The problem is that a large part of the female population living with the virus does not know it because women are not part of public detection and control policies. That is, women are not part of the key sectors in the prevention and treatment campaignsbut when analyzing those living with HIV, elements such as gender violence and the limited information on sexual and reproductive health that is available stand out.
Victims of sexist violence are 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV
On the other hand, the lack of access to education, gender inequality and sexual violence These are three conditions that have increased the number of women with AIDS in Latin America. According to expert Crabtree, “girls not going to secondary school or suffering abuse at home are determining risk factors for contracting the infection.”
Likewise, according to Censida, in Mexico, victims of sexist violence are up to 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV. The largest number of cases of infection in the country, for example, is concentrated in those entities with the highest rates of violence linked to poverty, such as Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero and Chiapas.
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