ABSTRACT
Over the last decade, so-called Latin American bisexuality has become a focus of interest among epidemiologists and public health practitioners. Needless to say, this is connected to the growth of an AIDS epidemic initially affecting men who were reported as ‘homosexuals’ in most countries’ surveillance reports in the region, an expansion that has paid attention neither to fixed borders of gender nor attributed sexual orientations, nor to the sexual identities that had somehow been assumed to govern the epidemic’s growth. As World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show, the proportion of reported cases of AIDS among women in Latin America is steadily increasing, which tends to be explained by a growing transmission of HIV from bisexual men to their female partners. The male-to-female case ratio had fallen from 6.9 in 1987 to 4.8 in 1993 (PAHO, 1993).
