No, Chagas disease is not the new AIDS of the Americas!

Abstract

Chagas disease and AIDS: the same terminology cannot be used to associate, let alone confuse, these two diseases with one another without distorting reality, as was done in a recent medical article entitled: "Chagas disease: The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas". Even though Chagas disease, like many other "neglected diseases", bears some superficial resemblance to AIDS in certain ways, it nevertheless differs from the latter in many other significant ones.

Infection With Trypanosoma cruzi and Progression to Cardiomyopathy

“…3 Some researchers have even gone so far as to suggest that Chagas disease may be the "new HIV/AIDS of the Americas," 4 opening a vivid debate among researchers. 5,6 Regardless of the media attention spurred by these contentious views, there is one undeniable truth: Chagas disease remains a largely neglected disorder that in the 21st century has migrated to nonendemic areas, triggering a resurgence in research of this fascinating disorder.…”