The Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the consequence, of lnmunodeficiencia Acquired Syndrome (AIDS), constitute a problem with profound implications epidemiological, medical, ethical, cultural and socioeconomic who do the holistic approach to the problem is very complex. However, these rapid advances are increasing the complexity of the problem, because we impose the challenge of adapting to the social and economic reality of our country in order to achieve a rational use and socially relevant resource it leads to a radical change in the history of HIV / AIDS. Colombia lies in fourth place among the countries of continental Latin America, the total number of reported cases of HIV infection and AIDS. The first recorded case of AIDS was diagnosed in the city of Cartagena de Indias in 1983, corresponding to a woman, sex worker. During the first decade of the epidemic in Colombia, the characterization of its performance was given by the predominance marking homosexual transmission.
In Bogota, men who have sex with men accounted for between 40% and 50% of the infections recorded between 1990 and 1994. By contrast, in regions such as the Atlantic Coast and Norte de Santander, heterosexual contact is the predominant mode of transmission, a situation that has been evident since the beginning of this decade.
The transfusion transmission contributes 84% of cumulative cases transmitted way blood, between 1995 and 1998 still were registered 26 cases of transfusion-transmissible, much of which may relate to infections occurred years ago. The highest peak of cases transmitted way blood was recorded in 1994, when it reported 17 cases, largely corresponding to the cases detected in 1993.
According to Ministry of Health statistics, in our country have been detected since 1985 until June 2002, 26,657 cases of people living with HIV / AIDS. The gender trend since the beginning of the epidemic, showing an annual growth in the number of cases of 184 for men and 38 for women, with a male-female ratio of 1:7 and in some regions of 1:4. This could be explained by the fact that 75% of patients maintained detected sex with men or bisexual (according to reports). According to the report that addresses Sectional made to the Ministry of Health, the largest number of cases of people living with HIV / AIDS or who have died from the disease, it presents the city of Bogota, with 7,765 infected. Antioquia with 4,609 cases; Valle with 2,789; Atlantic 1,293; Risaralda 953 and Norte de Santander with 943 people reported. These are the departments with the most cases have been reported. By age, 70.4% of the reported cases is between 20 and 40 years of age being the group of 25 to 29 years it highest, with 4,985 cases, followed that of 30 to 34 years with 4,870; from 20 to 24 with 3,434 and the population between 35 and 39 years with 3,226 cases. Of the 23,447 cases reported belongs to the 84.8% males and 14.4% females. However, the analysis indicates that for years the epidemic increasingly affecting women: while in 1986 the ratio was 47 to 1, for 2001 the ratio had fallen to 3 men for every woman infected. In Colombia, according to official data provided by UNAIDS, specifically, there are about 44,000 cases of HIV reported in January 2005, 25,399 infections are asymptomatic (without symptoms), 9,550 AIDS cases and about 14,000 deaths.
The laboratory examination to determine whether they are a carrier of HIV can be done in EPS to which you are insured. If the person is not affiliated to any EPS, in any hospital in the District may let them free, as Angarita. The person is treated in the hospital district until it subscribes to an EPS. In Bogota there are also a number of institutions that provide advice on AIDS. Here are some of them: Ministry of Health: online friend, Came Foundation, Eudes Foundation, Fundamor Foundation.
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