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As a staff
member of the Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) of the World Health
Organization (WHO) in Geneva from 1987-1992,
my responsibilities included developing methods for the
surveillance and estimation/ projection of HIV/AIDS and briefing all
new HQ and field staff on the current status of the pandemic.
I found that most of the staff who were joining GPA in the
late 1980s did not have a good understanding (as it was understood
at that time) of HIV/AIDS numbers and the basic epidemiology of HIV.
I have found that this general situation continues today for
many if not most AIDS workers, AIDS advocates and AIDS activists.
This presentation
was prepared to provide persons who are interested in or working in HIV/AIDS
programs with an objective review of the current estimates of HIV/AIDS and
with my understanding of the basic epidemiology and the transmission
dynamics of HIV infections. Most of
the materials in this lecture were prepared for my book – The AIDS
Pandemic: the collision of epidemiology with political correctness (Radcliffe-Oxford)
that was published in early 2007.
See
www.theaidspandemic.com for
details and reviews of this book. |