Publications and Reports
"The Destabilizing Impact of HIV/AIDS: First Wave Hits Eastern and Southern Africa; Second Wave Threatens India, China, Russia, Ethiopia, Nigeria"
CSIS HIV/AIDS Task Force, May 2002
"Gates Foundation Announces $100 Million HIV/AIDS Prevention Effort in India"
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today an initial $100 million commitment to support an initiative to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS in India. The new effort, the India AIDS Initiative, will expand access to proven HIV prevention interventions among mobile populations."
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, November 11, 2002
"The Next Wave of HIV/AIDS: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India, and China"
This Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) highlights the rising HIV/AIDS problem through 2010 in five countries of strategic importance to the United States that have large populations at risk for HIV infection: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, India, and China.
National Intelligence Council, September 2002
"UNAIDS Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in India: 2002 Update"
Statistics on the prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, and discussion of knowledge and behaviors related to HIV transmission. [.pdf]
UNAIDS, 2004
Webcast: "Can Asia Avoid the AIDS Typhoon?"
In this health policy discussion, AEI resident scholar Nicholas Eberstadt reports on his recent study about the threat of HIV/AIDS in Eurasia, an area of the world that contains 60% of the world's population. He looks in detail at three Eurasia countries--India, China, and Russia--and what we know about the facts that will affect the future spread of HIV/AIDS in each.
kaisernetwork.org, November 25, 2002
"AIDS Epidemic Update: 2002"
In recognition of World AIDS Day 2002, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization releases the December 2002 AIDS Epidemic Update. The updated figures outline the global spread of the epidemic noting the epidemic claimed more than 3 million lives in 2002. The Update also reports that an estimated 5 million people acquired the human immunodeciency virus (HIV) in 2002, bringing to 42 million the number of people globally living with the virus.
UNAIDS, December 2002
"The Future of HIV/AIDS"
According to the article's author, Nicholas Eberstadt, HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eurasia "threatens to derail the economic prospects of billions and alter the global military balance." According to the article, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eurasia -- defined in the article as the region encompassing Asia and Russia -- will be "[d]riven" by the spread of HIV in the territory's three largest countries: China, India and Russia. The spread of HIV in Eurasia will have "major worldwide repercussions" because the continent is home to most of the world's population, hosts a sizable military and has "substantial economic weight" in the international arena.
Foreign Affairs, November/December 2002
Business Action on HIV/AIDS - A Blueprint
Report discusses why businesses must respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and offers a "blueprint" on how to respond.
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2002
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