Chapter 5

AIDS and the world

Global estimates of AIDS prevalence can be found online at the following informative site: www.avert.org/worldstats.htm or at www.aidsmap.com. The latest epidemiology of AIDS is presented by J. Cohen (2007) Science 318: 1360-1361 “New estimates scale back scope of HIV/AIDS epidemic.”

United States support policy and the ABCs of AIDS prevention are outlined by the USAID at www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/News/abcfactsheet.html.

Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason was published by Penguin books in 2007.

The South African AIDS portal is www.doh.gov.za/aids/index.html.

Journalist Jonny Steinberg has just completed a book about the epidemic: Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic (Simon ...

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