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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
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TRIPLE DISEASE BURDEN
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UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO
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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
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