BROLL Indigenous Communities Left Behind in Peru

UNAIDS' new data report reveals that 30.7 million people living with HIV are now on treatment. This is a landmark public health achievement that has also seen AIDS-related deaths halved since 2010-from more than one million to 630,000 in 2023.
But in Latin America new HIV infections have increased by +9% since 2010. This is in stark contrast to other regions where new infections have dropped, like in Eastern and Southern Africa, -59%.
Indigenous communities as well as migrants and afro-descendants are particularly hard hit. High HIV prevalence has been reported among Indigenous in the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela (Warao) 9-6%, Peru (Chayahuita) 7.5% and Colombia (Wayuu women) 7.0%.
In Condorcanqui province (WHERE SHOTS BELOW COME FROM), in northern Peru, HIV prevalence is 1.8%, four times the national average. Extreme poverty, lack of access to transportation, reliance on traditional healers, sexual violence and HIV stigma have taken a toll.
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Courtesy: UNAIDS
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