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Introduction
AIDS, the most devastating human disease pandemic known to date, continues its progress across the globe, despite some recent signs of diminishing rates of new infections. The drums of affliction beat nightly in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the epidemic's epicenter, where 71 percent of the world's HIV-infected people, numbering an estimated 22.4 million, live with the virus. In Africa, 1.4 million die annually of AIDS-related causes and nearly two million new infections are transmitted, mainly through heterosexual intercourse. Most countries in southern Africa still have adult prevalence rates of 15 to 25 percent, while in a large population even a 5 percent [End Page 106]rate of HIV infection creates tremendous suffering. Most people with HIV are unaware that they are infected, and so they continue to spread the virus. Slow to recognize the epidemic's catastrophic potential, the international community has yet to respond with adequate resources. 1
The epidemic is neither uniform nor static, and efforts to contain the spread of HIV vary, as do responses to the affliction and suffering among the sick and their families. With neither cure nor vaccine in sight, prevention and biomedical treatment, including antiretroviral medications (ARVs), offer the only means of controlling...
Assessing Aids Research in Africa: Twenty-Five Years Later
