Vietnam - Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%)

Women's share of population ages 15+ living with HIV (%) in Vietnam was 33.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 30 years was 33.00 in 2020, while its lowest value was 8.30 in 1990.

Definition: Prevalence of HIV is the percentage of people who are infected with HIV. Female rate is as a percentage of the total population ages 15+ who are living with HIV.

Source: UNAIDS estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1990 8.30
1991 8.50
1992 8.80
1993 9.30
1994 10.20
1995 11.60
1996 13.30
1997 15.10
1998 16.80
1999 18.40
2000 19.80
2001 21.10
2002 22.30
2003 23.30
2004 24.40
2005 25.30
2006 26.20
2007 27.10
2008 27.90
2009 28.50
2010 29.00
2011 29.40
2012 29.90
2013 30.40
2014 30.80
2015 31.20
2016 31.60
2017 32.00
2018 32.30
2019 32.70
2020 33.00

Limitations and Exceptions: The limited availability of data on health status is a major constraint in assessing the health situation in developing countries. Surveillance data are lacking for many major public health concerns. Estimates of prevalence and incidence are available for some diseases but are often unreliable and incomplete. National health authorities differ widely in capacity and willingness to collect or report information.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: HIV prevalence rates reflect the rate of HIV infection in each country's population. Low national prevalence rates can be misleading, however. They often disguise epidemics that are initially concentrated in certain localities or population groups and threaten to spill over into the wider population. In many developing countries most new infections occur in young adults, with young women especially vulnerable. Data on HIV are from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Changes in procedures and assumptions for estimating the data and better coordination with countries have resulted in improved estimates of HIV and AIDS. The models, which are routinely updated, track the course of HIV epidemics and their impact, making full use of information in HIV prevalence trends from surveillance data as well as survey data. The models take into account reduced infectivity among people receiving antiretroviral therapy (which is having a larger impact on HIV prevalence and allowing HIV-positive people to live longer) and allow for changes in urbanization over time in generalized epidemics. The estimates include plausibility bounds, which reflect the certainty associated with each of the estimates.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors