... in response to Biddy biddy & the queers, posted by Cali vet on Jan 2, 2004Whatever. NPR needs to fire its entire research team then:
According to the CIA World Fact Book:
population: USA (290,342,554) Brazil (182,032,604)
HIV adult rate
(2001 estimates): USA (0.6%) Brazil (0.7%)
people living
with HIV/AIDS: USA(610,000) Brazil (900,000)
HIV/AIDS-deaths: USA(8,400) Brazil(15,000)
I.e. Same rate, seems like dramatically lower death rate...see WHO analysis below.
Colombia's rate seems to be .4%, Argentina .7%
Oh, and Ethiopia's rate is 6.4% (2001 est.), and Uganda's is 5.0% (2001 est.)
And according to the World Health Organization:
"Although causality is hard to prove, projections made over a decade ago, when it was predicted that Brazil would have a rapidly expanding epidemic, have not come to pass. HIV incidence has declined in recent years now that ARVs are widely available: only 7361 new cases of HIV infection were registered in the first nine months of 2001, compared with 17504 cases registered in 2000"
See http://www.who.int/whr/2003/chapter3/en/index2.html
Ciao
