AIDS in the Global Village

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Abstract
Data from the World Health Organization suggest that we Americans are in a relatively enviable position. Although the United States has lived through a decade of devastating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) spread, the current rate of new infections in this country is now diminishing.1Not so for persons living in many countries in the developing world where the HIV epidemic progresses unchecked. Seventy-five percent of the world's 12 million to 13 million HIV-infected persons live, or have lived, in developing countries; this will soon increase to an estimated 90%. The global epidemic has intensified despite a massive prevention effort. In many countries with high infection rates, education campaigns have spread the news about HIV, but this has not led as yet to a decrease in the frequency of high-risk sexual behavior adequate to halt the epidemic. Innovative interventions are desperately needed. It is timely, therefore, that this issue of

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