HIV/AIDS and climate change a pattern of response

Almost three decades into the hiv/aids pandemic, there is still widespread stigma, denial and government inaction. There are reports of rising rates of infection in the Western industrialized nations and concerns about the possibility of explosive epidemics in the Asian block; yet sub-Saharan Africa, with less than 15 per cent of the world’s population, remains at the epicentre of the epidemic, with over 70 per cent of the infections worldwide.