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Previous Volume 344:1257-1258 April 19, 2001 Number 16

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By James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt, and Paulo R. Telles. 185 pp. Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 2000. $30. ISBN 0-8133-3424-1.

There has been considerable scientific, social, and economic interest in the study of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil, a developing country that ranks second only to the United States in the number of reported cases of AIDS (196,000 by September 2000). Since 1996, there has been a stable yearly incidence of 14 per 100,000 population. Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil describes some of the components of the epidemic in Brazil, in particular the transmission of HIV among drug users, women, transvestites (from the results of research projects conducted in the city of Rio de Janeiro), and children living on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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