Adult HIV
Men:Female Ratio
HIV prevalence in female sex
HIV prevalence in Men who
Country
prevalence %,
AIDS cases
workers by place of work
have sex with men
end 2001
2001
2001/02 (sample size)1
2001/02 (sample size)2
Belize
2,0
0,8:1
N/A
N/A
Honduras
1,6
1,2:1
10,4
13,0
Panama
1,5
3:1
1,9
10,6
Guatemala
1,0
2,5:1
5,2
11,5
El Salvador
0,6
3:1
3,9
17,7
Costa Rica
0,6
7:1
N/A
N/A
Nicaragua
0,2
4:1
0,4
9,3
Source: HIV/AIDS in Central America: An Overview of Epidemic and Priorities for Prevention.
Latin American and Caribbean Region. Global HIV/AIDS Program. World Bank, September 2003.
1 PASCA Multisite Study on STIś and HIV probabilistic sample in capital cities census in port cities.
2 Sample is not representative, but rather drawn from men who volunteered to be tested, after seeing flyers and other promotion about the study from PASCA Multisite Study on STIś and HIV.
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TABLE 23
STIś ABSOLUTE NUMBERS OF REGISTERED CASES
1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990 to 2003
Urethritis
Chancro
Year
Gonorrhea
Siphylis
no