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Challenge and response: HIV in Asia and the Pacific
Author(s) -
Dwyer John M,
Mahathir Marina,
Nath Lalit M
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb123234.x
Subject(s) - new delhi , library science , citation , asia pacific , kuala lumpur , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , media studies , sociology , social science , political science , history , medicine , law , family medicine , ethnology , business , archaeology , metropolitan area , marketing , computer science
Inexorably, the epicentre of the global HIV pandemic is moving from Africa to Asia. Despite many years of much-publicised analysis of the African epidemic, most countries in Asia and many in the Pacific have not introduced the public health strategies known to minimise the spread of HIV. What must be done now, and how can the developed countries in the region, such as Australia, assist their neighbours?