The Epic of Latin America

Latin America and the Caribbean

Overall HIV Trends The HIV epidemic in Latin America is stable, and the adult HIV prevalence, at 0.4 percent, has remained unchanged between 2001 and 2010. The epidemic in the Caribbean has slowed significantly since the mid-1990s. The adult HIV prevalence in the Caribbean declined from 1.0 in 2001 to 0.9 in 2010. In 2010, about 76,000 people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries d...

Latin America and the Caribbean

Race in Latin America

category to understand human biological diversity. Humans vary to some extent in their DNA and their outward physical appearance or phenotype, but this diversity cannot be organized into “racial groups” or “races,” even if some genetic and phenotypical variation seems to correlate very broadly with continental geography. Humans are too similar genetically and intracontinental genetic variation ...

Recommendations for the diagnosis of candidemia in Latin America. Latin America Invasive Mycosis Network.

Candidemia is one of the most frequent opportunistic mycoses worldwide. Limited epidemiological studies in Latin America indicate that incidence rates are higher in this region than in the Northern Hemisphere. Diagnosis is often made late in the infection, affecting the initiation of antifungal therapy. A more scientific approach, based on specific parameters, for diagnosis and management of ca...

News from Latin America

The first international conference on cryptology and Information security, LatinCrypt 2010, will be held at the Baroque Hall located inside the Carolino Building in Puebla, Mexico from August 8 to August 11, 2010. The Program Committee co-chairs are Michel Abdalla (France) and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (Brazil) while the General chair is Francisco RodrÃŋguez-Henríquez (Mexico). There have been 19 ...