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6 Latin America and the Caribbean and Millennium Development Goal 6 COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES Target 6A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS NEW INFECTIONS OF HIV AND AIDS-RELATED DEATHS HAVE COME DOWN SLIGHTLY IN THE REGION: THE EPIDEMIC REMAINS CONCENTRATED IN SPECIFIC POPULATION GROUPS THAT ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTY IN ACCESSING ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV IN 2014 280,000 1.7 MILLION THE CARIBBEAN LATIN AMERICA IN THE CARIBBEAN, THE EPIDEMIC AFFECTS MEN AND WOMEN EQUALLY PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA THERE ARE 11 MEN INFECTED WITH HIV FOR EVERY 5 WOMEN INFECTED THE CARIBBEAN IS THE SUBREGION WITH THE SECOND HIGHEST PREVALENCE OF HIV IN THE WORLD, AFTER SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN IS A Target 6B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it WORLD LEADER THE SUPPLY AND EXPANSION OF ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT THE REGION HAS MADE PROGRESS IN CONTROLLING PREVENTABLE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES SUCH AS MALARIA AND TUBERCULOSIS Target 6C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases MORTALITY 8.3 PREVALENCE 137 MALARIA HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED IN THE REGION, BUT ALMOST HALF A MILLION CASES ARE STILL REPORTED EVERY YEAR, MOSTLY IN A SMALL GROUP OF COUNTRIES Cumulative number of cases 4.9 INCIDENCE 84 New cases 76 58 2.7 44 56 Per 100 000 persons 1990 2002 1.2 MILLION 427,000 2000 2013 2013 INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE AND DEATH RATES ASSOCIATED WITH TUBERCULOSIS HAVE ALL FALLEN CONFIRMED MALARIA CASES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE IS CHARACTERIZED BY A TRIPLE DISEASE BURDEN Infectious diseases Morbidity due to external causes + TRIPLE DISEASE BURDEN Life styles, unhe althy c o nsumption a nd izati o n R a pid u rban e UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO GOOD-QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES abit s ing h at Non-communicable chronic diseases CONTROL OF NON-COMMUNICABLE CHRONIC DISEASES This infographic contains the traditional description of the Goal and its indicators, for reference. However, the information is organized differently to show the targets in a systemic manner, highlighting the main achievements and challenges, on the one hand, and the main issues and links with other dimensions of development, on the other. Source: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Latin America and the Caribbean: looking ahead after the Millennium Development Goals. Regional monitoring report on the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015 (LC/G.2646), Santiago, 2015. More indicators are available in CEPALSTAT [online] http://estadisticas.cepal.org/cepalstat/. Some vectors of this infographic were designed by Freepik.com PEOPLE