• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 11 / 21 / 2011

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Century pandemic, HIV / AIDS, has managed to be relatively controlled in Cuba as the incidence of the disease in 2011 is lower than in other years, at least so far. Despite all measures of health education that are made on the island there is still a large number of people infected homosexual men being the most affected group.

Although still not close the statistics of 2011, we expect that this year is in, and even lower than predicted, both in number of infections, and mortality, told Prensa Latina Isela Lantero Dr. Maria Abreu, Head of the National Prevention and Control of STI / HIV / AIDS.

From January to October there have been nearly two million tests for HIV, and 400 thousand new cases diagnosed, said the expert, and stressed that rather than total numbers of patients is important to talk about how the disease moves, as the same problem affects the entire island.

The largest number of diagnoses takes place in 45 municipalities of the archipelago, but it is the city of Havana as a province the most reports, highlighted Lantero, who said that unprotected sex is the main route of transmission.

Hence, should be directed prevention strategies to the more complex and higher risk groups, but should focus only on HIV / AIDS, and observed an increase in other sexually transmitted infections such as virus human papillomavirus, said.

Cuba has been diagnosed in a cumulative total since 1986, 15, 400 HIV-positive, and two thousand 580 deaths from AIDS.