Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MONTERO, Pablo. Epidemiological Aspects of the human immunodeficiency virus in Costa Rica. Rev. costarric. salud pública [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.2, pp.118-126. ISSN 1409-1429.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus take an interspecie jump more than 100 years ago from the monkeys to the humans, by transforming into two types of viruses capable to infect the human being, the human immunodeficiency virus

Type1 and type 2. This type of virus have spread from Africa to the rest of the world by different ways, arriving to Costa Rica in the 80´s. Since the arrival of the virus, every year, there have been reported more new cases, than the last year studied, and the efforts in prevention to stop the spread of the disease show no results.

Keywords : HIV; HIV infections; AIDS serodiagnosis; epidemiologic factors; Costa Rica.

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