4,000 New HIV Cases Annually
 Wire services/El Universal
| | A volunteer from the Aids control society takes part on a campaign for Aids awareness program in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, September 9, 2005. Almost 5 million people were infected by HIV globally in 2005, the highest jump since the first reported case in 1981, taking the number living with the virus to a record 40.3 million, the U.N. said on Monday. (Reuters/Ajay Verma) |
Mexico registers each year between 3,500 and 4,000 new cases of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS announced here at a Monday press conference.
The director of the center, known as Censida, Jorge Saavedra, provided the figure during the presentation of the book "The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the era of AIDS," by author H้ctor Carrillo.
Saavedra said that as of Sept. 15, Censida had officially registered 96,513 cases of HIV since the outbreak of the epidemic in Mexico in 1981.
He said that the actions being taken to prevent HIV/AIDS in Mexico are insufficient, adding that bigger prevention campaigns and improvements in sexual education for children and teenagers at school are needed.
In agreement with experts and doctors attending the press conference, Saavedra said that sexual education in Mexico has been poorly focused and imparted via "anecdotes, jokes and experiences, but not by persons who received training and education in the subject."
He also said that the 9th National AIDS Congress would be held in the southern city of Oaxaca beginning on Dec. 1. |
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News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2005 
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