AIDS in the World: The Global AIDS Policy Coalition

The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health systems and entire societies in the 1990s will be much more severe than it was in the 1980s; up-to-date information about the disease is now crucial. Yet even though readers are deluged by technical publications and popularizations, no single book tracks, on an annual basis, the evolution of the pandemic, its effects, and the worldwide response. To fill this gap, Jonathan Mann, founding director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS and currently director of the International AIDS Center at Harvard University, has assembled a team of experts. "AIDS in the world" synthesizes the best possible information, data, and thinking about AIDS into one volume. This book provides a guide to rekindling the worldwide assault on AIDS. To ensure that AIDS and HIV prevalence; mortality rates; links between other infections and HIV; breakthroughs in biomedical, clinical, and behavioural areas; prevention and care; legislation and human rights issues; and economic and demographic aspects. "AIDS in the World 1992" provides a global assessment for where we are now and where we are headed; it spotlights critical issues and highlights communities and countries that may be especially vulnerable to the dissemination of HIV. Publication scheduled before the VIIIth International Conference on AIDS in July 1992, this work should be useful to governments, policymakers, scientists, health care workers, and journalists around the world who will rely on this book to make the crucial decisions of this decade and the next.

The first book ever written on worldwide AIDS, by the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, in which mountains of data were organized into fantastic illustrations and tables...This AIDS pandemic is volatile and unstable, and the major impacts are still to come. Yet, a global ethic of caring has not occurred and a vision to stop the pandemic is dimming...By asking the right questions where answers are lacking, the book attempts to improve accountability so that the liberating information can effect a new position of world vulnerability. A clear, global, but pessimistic, picture is painted that may alert a world that is not responding to the AIDS crisis. The authors succeed in bringing international concepts to readers on strategy, research, training, prevention, and care. Possibly, this project may be the most significant ever undertaken on worldwide AIDS.

World" has said many important things about the design and execution of effective HIV control. We must hope that someone is listening.

previously unavailable or inaccessible, to help develop a global perspective on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the response to it, and where we are headed'.

international concepts to readers on strategy, research, training, prevention, and care. Possibly, this project may be the most significant ever undertaken on worldwide AIDS.

With the publication of AIDS in the World, we now have a guide for building a truly global understanding [of the pandemic]. This book promotes a simultaneously local and worldwide vision...The book is surprisingly readable despite its size and density...In closing, AIDS in the World lives up to its sweeping title. It fulfills its goal 'to provide information, much of it previously unavailable or inaccessible, to help develop a global perspective on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the response to it, and where we are headed'.

With the publication of "AIDS in the World," we now have a guide for building a truly global understanding [of the pandemic]. This book promotes a simultaneously local and worldwide vision...The book is surprisingly readable despite its size and density...In closing, "AIDS in the World" lives up to its sweeping title. It fulfills its goal 'to provide information, much of it previously unavailable or inaccessible, to help develop a global perspective on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the response to it, and where we are headed'. -- Allen J. LeBlanc "Contemporary Sociology"

This is the first global report on AIDS published by the Global AIDS Policy Coalition...This is a highly recommended book. It is heavy reading, full of facts and figures, and alarming.--H. Robert Malinowsky "AIDS Book Review Journal "

With the publication of "AIDS in the World", we now have a guide for building a truly global understanding [of the pandemic]. This book promotes a simultaneously local and worldwide vision...The book is surprisingly readable despite its size and density...In closing, "AIDS in the World" lives up to its sweeping title. It fulfills its goal 'to provide information, much of it previously unavailable or inaccessible, to help develop a global perspective on the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the response to it, and where we are headed'.--Allen J. LeBlanc "Contemporary Sociology "

The Harvard-based Global AIDS Policy Coalition has compiled a stunning and shaming report on the HIV pandemic...The Coalition--comprised of hundreds of independent investigators involved with AIDS--documents the causes and effects of HIV disease. In its detailed analysis of the biology, sociology, and politics of HIV, "AIDS in the World" is a blueprint for effective AIDS control...In the best tradition of public health, "AIDS in the World" proceeds on the assumption that good policy will follow good information. The report includes thorough accounts of the status of research, medical care, and prevention, as well as detailed coverage of particularly important issues such as the development of a female condom and the housing needs of people with HIV...Most significant is the work of the Coalition in evaluating existing AIDS programmes, and in assessing national vulnerability to the epidemic...The report succeeds splendidly in documenting the extent of the disease and its toll. The Coali