AIDS Prevention In Peru - HIV/ AIDS

With the help of the World Health Organization, AIDS prevention in Peru has received a big help when it comes to assisting those who are in danger of getting HIV/ AIDS by preventative methods as well as offering treatment for their condition if they test positive for HIV/ AIDS

There is a progress report every year to monitor the intervention approach for those who have HIV/ AIDS in Peru. A great deal of AIDs prevention in Peru is focused on mothers and children. Women who are HIV/ AIDS positive can pass the disease on to their unborn children. This is becoming more important and as the rate of those who are living with HIV in Peru is increasing AIDS prevention becomes a more pressing necessity.

According to estimates by the World Health Organization, the low estimate of those women above the age of 15 who have HIV/ AIDS has risen in prevalence from 2001 with the high estimate of those women who are HIV positive being 29,000, as opposed to 20,000 in 2001. This shows that the AIDS prevention steps that are being taken are still inadequate.

According to statistics, the rate of women and children who are living with HIV as of 2007 has increased in the past few years. When it comes to the general population of those who are living with HIV/ AIDS in Peru since 1990 has risen dramatically in the past ten years. The estimated number of those who are HIV positive in Peru has increased from about a high estimate of 40,000 in 1990 to over 100,000 in 2007. Despite all the AIDS prevention methods, there are still more men who have AIDS in Peru than in women.

Fortunately, the availability of AIDS prevention drugs as HIV treatment has decreased the death rate of those who die from AIDS in Peru in recent years. Although the high estimate of deaths has increased from 4200 deaths in 2001 to 5000 deaths in 2007, the low estimate has remained the same.

The annual number of deaths due to HIV/ AIDS in Peru has stagnated or slightly risen in the recent years.

In Peru, HIV/ AIDS is seen as problem among young people who are less likely to practice safe sex practices. According to the statistics from WHO, the rates of young adults and teens coming down with AIDS has continued to rise, despite the educational efforts and availability AIDS prevention methods such as condoms.


There are many people who have been working towards AIDS prevention in Peru as well as to reduce the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in developing countries. They state that the reason for the increase in cases in young men and women are a reluctance to view HIV/ AIDS as a life threatening condition. When HIV/ AIDS was first diagnosed in the early 1980s, it was considered a death sentence. The rise in HIV drugs to treat the condition has leveled off the deaths from the disease, but has perhaps given a false sense of confidence to those who were not around when this disease was first discovered. To an entire new generation of young people, AIDS is no longer considered to be a death sentence. This can end up giving young people, who are more prone to taking risks, into taking risks when it comes to unsafe sex practices.

In order to educate people when it comes to AIDS prevention, more help is needed when it comes to education both young people as well as women of child bearing age who may be able to pass the disease on to their unborn children. Education is the key when it comes to AIDS prevention in Peru.