AIDS in the world

Jonathan M. Mann, D. Tarantola, Thomas W. Netter

AIDS in the World is the first analysis of the global confrontation with AIDS. By explaining the roots of individual and collective vulnerability to the pandemic, it sets the stage for a revolutionary personal, community, and international response to the AIDS crisis. This book provides the data, projections, and information critical to analyzing where we are and where we are going - information basic to a new global vision for a world confronting AIDS. According to this comprehensive, independent study by the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, worldwide efforts to bring the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS under control are now at a critical juncture. AIDS in the World projects that by 1995 nearly 20 million people will be infected with HIV, and 6.4 million adults and children will develop AIDS; by the year 2000, between 38 and 110 million adults and as many as 10...

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