Entorno epidemiológico y respuesta a la epidemia del VIH en Bolivia Epidemiological environment and response to the HIV epidemic in Bolivia

• Main Authors: Juan Pablo Protto, Diddie Schaaf, Marco Fidel Suárez, Christian Darras
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: VIH; SIDA; epidemiología; servicios de salud; Bolivia; HIV; AIDS; epidemiology; health services; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/8bea5127e77d42e38a3516fef2a81441

With AIDS/HIV, early detection is of key importance to public health, as well as disseminating prevention information and providing timely and appropriate treatment. In Bolivia, at the end of 2006 approximately 50% had AIDS at the time of diagnosis, detection having occurred late in the illness. The...