What is the Real Prevalence of HIV-Infection in Saudi Arabia?

Adel Alothman1,2, Khalid Altalhi3, Abdulrahman Al Saedy2 and Thamer Al Enazi21College of Medicine, KSAU-HS. 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, KAMC. 3AIDS National Program, MOH Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. AbstractAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) continues to be transmitted in the developing world. The World Health Organization (WHO) produces an annual report from the United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) Epidemic Update declaring the new AIDS cases across the world. UNAIDS had to make an estimates from certain countries like Saudi Arabia (SA), due to the fact that there is no adequate reporting of AIDS cases to the WHO. In 2001, the Ministry of Health in SA had created the Saudi AIDS-National Program which became responsible for counting old and new HIV-infection in Saudis and non-Saudis cases and produce an annual report in SA. Data collection shows that obtaining number of AIDS from Saudi-National Program would be more accurate than UNAIDS estimate in SA.