IAVI Report. AIDS and vaccine development in Asia.

The Asia-Pacific region is the world’s largest and most diverse in terms of geography populations cultures and political and economic systems. Stretching halfway across the globe from Iraq to Tahiti it is home to the world’s most populous countries—China India Indonesia—as well as some of the smallest and most isolated the island states of the South Pacific. The region is also home to a belated but now burgeoning AIDS epidemic as several meetings and reports in late 2001 made clear. About 7.1 million Asian people are living with HIV/AIDS over one million of them infected just within the past year. (excerpt)