You can also get a compendium of recent reports on the AIDS epidemic at Communicable Disease Prevention and Control. With their permission we have included their 1998 report on this site for easy loading. Without AIDS, they could have expected to live to the age of 70. This is a selection from The AIDS Knowledge Base , an Online textbook on HIV disease from the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. The AIDS epidemic has forced demographers to reappraise their estimates of population growth in areas hit hardest by the epidemic.
Statistics depersonalize events, turning people into portions of percents.
Yet illnesses such as AIDS affect more than the person infected. In this final selection, a young woman from Zambia describes what it is like to have AIDS, and how it affects her social networks. All rights reserved under international and pan-American copyright conventions, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.