page_title: Health in Cameroon
section_title: HIV/AIDS
hierarchical_section_title: Health in Cameroon / Health status / HIV/AIDS
caption_attribution_description: English: A graph showing a decline in the incidence of HIV from 2000 o 2018.
context_page_description: The Ministry of Public Health in Cameroon is responsible for the maintenance of all public health services. Many missionaries maintain health and leprosy centers. The government is pursuing a vigorous policy of public health improvement, with considerable success in reducing sleeping sickness, leprosy, and other endemic diseases.
  The demand for all types of health services and equipment is high and constant. The need for modern equipment is especially urgent, with many clinics using outdated equipment, some of which is imported illegally from Nigeria. There is also a shortage in professional medical staff, partially caused by public service hiring quotas. Therefore the staff that works is badly paid and has too much work to do, which makes it difficult to treat patients adequately. Many doctors and nurses which were trained in Cameroon emigrate to Europe – but also to South Africa and Asia – for that reason.
context_section_description: HIV/AIDS is the second cause of death in Cameroon in 2018 after Malaria.  
  Progress had been made in AIDS-related death and new infections in Cameroon; reduction in the number of deaths from 22,000 to 18,000 and the number of new infections from 36,000 to 23,000 between the years 2010 and 2018. In 2018, 540,000 people were living with HIV and the prevalence among adults (15-49 years) was 3.6%.Moreover, the incidence among all people of all ages in Cameroon is 1.02% in 2018 . In Sub Saharan Africa, the incidence (new infections per 1,000 of population) among adults (15 - 49 years) declined from 3.39 in 2010, 2.49 in 2015 to 2.14 in 2017 and globally for adults it also declined from 0.44 to 0.40 between 2015 and 2017.   
  
  Many organizations have been partnering with the government of Cameroon via the ministry of public health (MINSANTE) to against this disease.
caption: Incidence of HIV in Cameroon from 1990 - 2018
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