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March 2002, Vol 92, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 335
© 2002 American Public Health Association

EDITOR'S CHOICE

The Global Spread of HIV

Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief


This month, the Journal highlights the global HIV epidemic. By the end of 2001, 40 million people worldwide were living with HIV, the overwhelming majority of them—28.1 million—in sub-Saharan Africa, according to statistics compiled by UNAIDS and available at www.unaids.org. Nonetheless, abrupt spikes in HIV infection rates throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia also demand global attention. Around the region, the number of infections is 15 times higher than it was 3 years ago, largely because growing numbers of young people are turning to intravenous drug use in these generally bleak economies.

Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, . . . [Full Text]






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