December 1, 2001

12:26 AM

BBC News Online 'AIDS around the World" special sectionThe numbers, displayed by region, and with links to relevant stories. I find it's the numbers that bring so much of the reality home.
posted by jonpollard (3 comments total)

The New York Times' AIDS at 20 special section and Yahoo! Full Coverage of HIV/AIDS.
posted by tamim at 1:08 AM on December 1, 2001

Another good New York Times series, "Death and Denial", "about the H.I.V. epidemic in South Africa and one ravaged community, Hlabisa," where 35 percent of adults are infected with H.I.V.
posted by ferris at 4:31 AM on December 1, 2001

And this from Reuters gives results of the latest U.N. report. Countries of the former Soviet bloc now face the world's fastest growing infection rate, though "Asian nations like Cambodia and Thailand have drastically lowered HIV rates with large-scale prevention campaigns."
posted by ferris at 4:51 AM on December 1, 2001