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Thursday, October 12, 2006
HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean
This has been around for a few months but I stumbled across it today so I thought I would pass it along. A few months ago Science magazine had a special section about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Latin America, which has been overlooked in the scientific and academic literature (most of the focus has traditionally been on Africa). San Pedro Sula in northwest Honduras, where I was this past summer, has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in Central America, which really surprised me because I had never heard of the city before.
The companion website is an interactive map of Central America where you can click on different countries and it brings up a short narrated videos and some stats about that country (see the screenshot below). It's a very well-done site that's not bogged down with numbers and raw data, just the facts and faces to put with them. See The Overlooked Epidemic: HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Posted by Will at October 12, 2006 04:59 PM in Anthropology