HIV/AIDS is catastrophic both from a public health perspective and in terms of its impact on
economic and social stability in many of the most severely affected nations, including …

Political will or commitment toward the HIV epidemic has been lacking in most African
countries. Although most countries are in denial, a few have moved into recognition of the …

The collective failure to invest sufficiently in comprehensive, rights-based, people-centred
HIV responses has come at a terrible price. Implementing just the most politically palatable …

An enormous human tragedy is unfolding in many less-developed countries because of the
spread of HIV/AIDS. Of the 33.4 million HIV-infected people around the world, there are an …

Over 90 percent of the people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which
causes AIDS live in the developing world. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS …

This book argues that the global epidemic of HIV/AIDS can be overcome. It draws from three
bodies of knowledge: the epidemiology of HIV, public health insights into disease control …

hile epidemic and pandemic both denote diseases that simultaneously attack many
members of a commu nity at a rate greater than normal, the two differ in that the latter occurs …

Much of the world's knowledge about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and
its causal agent, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has been generated in the …

IF THE deadly bird flu discussed in the previous three essays were ever to sweep across the
world, the impact on national security would be obvious everywhere. Nations rich and poor …

In 2007, the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) concluded that “Global
HIV incidence likely peaked in the late 1990s”, due to “natural trends in the epidemic as well …