Book Review

摘要

The AIDS epidemic is obviously a global crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. More than a quarter of a century since HIV was identified, the long wave, inter generation nature of AIDS epidemic is becoming starkly evident. More than 28 million people have died since the first case was reported in 1981. In 2005 AIDS killed 2.8 million people and it is estimated 4.1 million become infected bringing to 38.6 million the number of people living with virus around the world; 24.5 million of which live in Sub Sahara Africa. (Where in some countries one in three adults are infected) and 8.3 million live in Asia (UNAIDS, 2006).