Subregion | (Number of notified cases) | |||||||||
Measles | Cholera | Tuberculosis | Malaria | AIDS | ||||||
Until | In | |||||||||
1980 | 1997 | 1992 | 1997 | 1980 | 1995 | 1980 | 1997 | 1991 | 1995 | |
The Americas | 251,257 | 51,910 | 358,169 | 17,690 | 227,137 | 255,582 | 537,948 | 1,057,337 | 334,221 | 100,559 |
North America | 26,875 | 708 | 102 | 4 | 30,507 | 23,321 | 2,675 | 1,265 | 267,906 | 68,858 |
Latin America & The Caribbean | 224,382 | 51,202 | 358,067 | 17,686 | 196,630 | 232,262 | 535,273 | 1,056,072 | 66,315 | 31,699 |
Latin America | 219,716 | 51,084 | 357,483 | 17,686 | 195,748 | 231,437 | 526,777 | 1,007,903 | 62,532 | 29,892 |
Mexico | 29,730 | 28 | 8,162 | 2,356 | 11,528 | 17,159 | 25,734 | 5,046 | 9,057 | 4,310 |
Central America | 15,680 | 41 | 30,028 | 2,640 | 11,870 | 13,376 | 225,558 | 152,981 | 3,362 | 2,123 |
Latin Caribbean | 14,422 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12,042 | 14,669 | 13,043 | 850 | 6,061 | 599 |
Brazil | 95,154 | 50,460 | 37,572 | 2,927 | 72,608 | 89,233 | 176,237 | 392,976 | 34,478 | 17,666 |
Andean Area | 43,466 | 171 | 281,095 | 9,122 | 59,003 | 76,440 | 85,724 | 454,881 | 6,868 | 3,033 |
Southern Cone | 21,264 | 383 | 626 | 641 | 28,697 | 20,558 | 481 | 1,169 | 2,706 | 2,163 |
Non-Latin Caribbean | 4,666 | 118 | 584 | 0 | 882 | 825 | 8,496 | 48,169 | 3,783 | 1,807 |
Source
of basic data: PAHO Regional Database on Mortality and AIDS
Surveillance in the Americas, September 1998.
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