Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region.

4 November 1996

journal article
review article

Vol. 165 (9) , 494-8

Abstract

The incidence of new HIV infections in Asia and the Pacific will soon pass that in Africa and is projected to increase into the next century. The AIDS epidemic arising from these infections will have enormous consequences for the health and socioeconomic development of a region encompassing more than half the world's population.

Keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME
ASIA
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DISEASES
EPIDEMICS
HIV INFECTIONS--TRANSMISSION
INCIDENCE--CHANGES
MEASUREMENT
OCEANIA
PREVALENCE--CHANGES
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
VIRAL DISEASES

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