Foreword
As the world enters the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, the United Nations estimates that 42 million people around the globe are now living with HIV/AIDS and that the virus claimed more than 3 million lives in 2002. Approximately 70 percent of those currently affected live in Africa, where some 11,000 new infections occur each day and the disease is consuming scarce resources and causing an economic as well as a humanitarian crisis. Although HIV/AIDS is under control in the developed world, there is the potential for an explosive spread as it migrates into other developing regions, such as…
