[Mortality from the HIV/AIDS in the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social]

Mortality is an indicator that allow us to evaluate HIV infection control programs. From the middle of the last decade, mortality presents a tendency to decrease in the population covered by the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social). In relation to gender and age group the most affected are men between 25 to 44 years of age with mortality rates ranging from 30 to 12 by 100,000 men (1995 to 2009 respectively). In 2009, at least half of the Delegaciones (administrative units by State) present larger mortality rates than the institutional average, particularly Campeche with 14.9 by 100,000 men. It is clear that introduction of control measures against the disease from infected people represents a modification in the course of the illness in the population covered by IMSS.