Concepedia

Abstract

This volume provides a global review of the AIDS situation. The work covers the period from the first recognition of AIDS in the early 1980s through mid-1992 thus contains both a retrospective and a current analysis of the pandemics dimensions shape and impact as well as the range of societal responses. The book attempts to provide the data projections and information needed to analyze current and future trends in the epidemic and 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 million children will be infected with HIV and up to 24 million adults will develop AIDS. (EXCERPT)