HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic has a 0.9% prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS, among the lowest percentage-wise in the Caribbean region. However, it has the second most cases in the Caribbean region in total (after Haiti), with an estimated 46,000 HIV/AIDS-positive Dominicans as of 2013 (the Dominican Republic is the second most populated Caribbean nation).
Prevalence
In 2006, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that the adult prevalence of HIV was 1.1%. In 2019, the US government-run PEPFAR estimated the prevalence at 0.9%. Some urban areas of the Dominican Republic experience HIV/AIDS infection rates well in excess of 10%.
In some parts of the Dominican Republic, HIV/AIDS has become one of the leading cause of death among teenagers and adults between 15–49 years old. Adult women living with HIV/AIDS are estimated at 23,000. HIV prevalence in pregnant women had been relatively stable for a number of years. However, 2005 sentinel surveillance reported HIV prevalence of more than 4.5 percent in pregnant women at two sites. In 2006, sentinel surveillance of pregnant women of all ages reported seroprevalence of 3.4 percent at four sites and 5.9 percent at one site.
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