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The Federal District (DF) of Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world (area: 1,320 square kilometers; 1990 population: 15 million). As the national capital, it is a cosmopolitan commercial, cultural, and administrative center of national as well as international significance. Although spared by high altitude from a variety of tropical disease threats (such as dengue and malaria) that affect other regions of Mexico, the infant mortality rate for Mexico City is high: 37 per 1000 (1). The leading causes of death in the city are chronic diseases, injury, and infectious diseases (2). The city is a mosaic of residential, commercial, and industrial districts (it generates 27.4% of Mexico’s GNP) (3) and of affluent and poor neighborhoods (colonias). Indeed, it presents in microcosm much of the national spectrum of educational, economic, and ethnic diversi-ty.
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Avila, M.H., Zuniga, P.U., de Zalduondo, B.O. (1991). Diversity in Commercial Sex Work Systems: Preliminary Findings from Mexico City and Their Implications for Aids Interventions. In: Chen, L.C., Amor, J.S., Segal, S.J., Anderson, J.M. (eds) AIDS and Women’s Reproductive Health. Reproductive Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3354-2_16
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