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Why US Physicians Should Care About HIV Outside the United States

Seth F. Berkley, MD

JAMA. 1992;268(23):3368-3369.

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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.¹ Not 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 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to the Rockefeller Foundation, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 (Dr Berkley).

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