| Author: Lester R. Brown |
| InfoShare Partner: Earth Policy Institute |
| Publication Date: February 2006 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: HIV/AIDS, general, HIV/AIDS prevention |
| Region: Global |
| Language: English |
| File Size: 36 KB |
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There is no precedent for the number of lives affected by the HIV epidemic. To find anything similar to such a potentially devastating loss of life, we have to go back to the smallpox decimation of Native American communities in the sixteenth century or to the bubonic plague that took roughly a fourth of Europe’s population during the fourteenth century. HIV should be seen for what it is—an epidemic of epic proportions that, if not checked soon, could take more lives during this century than were claimed by all the wars of the last century.
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