http://www.paho.org/English/HCP/HCA/Report_Foro_200_HIV-%20AIDS.pdf

As the HIV epidemic enters its third decade, the challenges it poses to families, to societies, to governments and to science continue to grow. The more we learn about HIV and the behaviors that spread it, the more we are forced to recognize the diversity of the global pandemic. Nowhere is this more true than in the Americas, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the levels, patterns of spread and responses to the epidemic are probably more varied than in any other geographical Region of the world.