Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1999. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1999. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia - Thursday September 16, 1999
Health officials have long suspected that Brazil, which suffers one of the world's highest incidences of AIDS, had several times more than the 95,000 cases of HIV infection that were officially registered.
The ministry said in a statement that the number of HIV cases in Latin America's biggest country was only half of the early estimates made by the World Bank of 1.2 million infected Brazilians by the year 2000.
The World Bank later lowered that prediction by 44 percent in a report last year.
``The current (Brazilian) estimate confirms the evaluation of the Bank,'' the Health Ministry's statement said.
The latest Brazilian study measured people 15 to 49 years old and broke the data down by geographical region and sex.
Nationwide, 0.61 percent of the population carries the HIV virus, with the highest infection rate in the heavily populated southeast, where 0.85 percent of inhabitants or 330,600 people have the HIV virus.
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