Editor’s Note: On Nov. 26, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) released their report entitled “AIDS Epidemic Update 2002.” According to this new report and additional presentations on the Dec. 1 commemoration of World AIDS Day, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has devastating societal implications, including famine in southern Africa and increasing numbers of orphans in many hard-hit areas. Of 42 million people worldwide who are now HIV-positive, 5 million were newly infected in 2002; 3.1 million died of AIDS this year. In sub-Saharan Africa, there were approximately 3.5 million new infections in 2002 and 2.4 million deaths.
In Asia, 7.2 million people are HIV-positive, and UNAIDS warns that 11 million more Asians will become HIV-positive by 2007 unless access to preventive measures and treatment improves dramatically. To learn more about the global impact of this epidemic and appropriate responses by the UN and by makers of national healthcare policy, Medscape’s Laurie Barclay interviewed Desmond Johns, MD, director of the UNAIDS New York office.
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