“…Complementary analyses, which were subsequently performed, showed that the process of AIDS becoming more associated with poverty, women, heterosexuals and the Brazilian countryside occurred concomitantly with the following: the maintenance of high rates of prevalence in specifi c populations, notably homosexuals, injecting drug users (IDU), sex professionals and incarcerated populations; 2,8,12,18,25,a the regional and social differences in Brazil, which caused different types of behavior of the disease, with the reduction in the number of cases in the Southeastern and CentralWestern regions and increase in the Northern and Northeastern regions; and the increase in the number of cases among individuals aged more than 60 years and young homosexuals. 5,10,24 In addition, intimately associated with the fact that the Southeastern region, particularly the state of São Paulo, has the greatest and oldest epidemics, epidemiological analyses began to show a stabilization in the general AIDS incidence and HIV prevalence rates in Brazil, in the 2000s.…”