AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

doi:10.1056/NEJM200303063481025

Volume 348:967-968		March 6, 2003		Number 10

AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

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By Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside. 416 pp., illustrated. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. $45. ISBN 1-4039-0005-1.

In only two decades, the epidemic of human immunodeficiencyvirus (HIV) infection and AIDS has progressed from being a medicalcuriosity to its current status as a global killer, changingthe family structures, economic development, and even the securityof many countries in the developing world. Tony Barnett, professorof development studies at the University of East Anglia in theUnited Kingdom, and Alan Whiteside, director of the Health Economicsand HIV–AIDS Research Division at the University of Natalin South Africa, have written a book that examines the socialand economic effects of the HIV–AIDS epidemic, failuresin responding . . . [Full Text of this Article]