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Latin America and the Caribbean: Specific Characteristics of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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Introduction

Latin America is the region in the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese are the main national languages. It includes islands in the Caribbean, a region consisting of islands of the Caribbean Sea, and surrounding coasts (Oxford Dictionary Definition of Latin America in English 2015). Other smaller nations and colonies in proximity to Latin America have Creole, French, English, or Dutch as their national languages, along with other local languages.

The population of this region is around 600 million, approximately 8% of the world’s population, with Brazil the most populous country (Central Intelligence Agency Country Comparison: Population 2014). According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, despite poverty reduction and economic growth in the last 5 years, this region harbors immense economic and health disparities (Cecchini and Rodrigo Martínez 2012). Similarly, there are disparities in the prevalence of HIV-AIDS among countries and within...

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  1. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

    Giuliana Cerro

  2. Instituto de medicina Tropical alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Lima, 15102, Peru

    Eduardo Gotuzzo

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  1. Dept. Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Thomas J. Hope

  2. University of California, San Diego Dept. Pathology, La Jolla, California, USA

    Douglas Richman

  3. Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

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Cerro, G., Gotuzzo, E. (2017). Latin America and the Caribbean: Specific Characteristics of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. In: Hope, T., Richman, D., Stevenson, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9610-6_246-1

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