It has been aptly stated that when the history of public health during the last 50 years is recorded by chroniclers, it indicates great triumph and a terrible tragedy. The triumph relates to the elimination of small-pox and the tragedy to the holocaust of AIDS.
Within a span of 13 years since its emergence in 1981, we have now an estimated number of over 15 million HIV-infected men, women and children all over the world. It has now spread to almost all the countries in the world and made popular a new word in the public health lexicon-'pandemic'. The continued spread of HIV is not only threatening many millions of lives, but is also slowing, and in some cases reversing, progress made in social and economic development. We in India are not immune from this threat.
In her eminently readable book called Challenge of AIDS, Dr Khorshed Pavri has unfolded the various facets of this tragic and fascinating phenomenon. She is well known in the scientific circle for the significant contribution to generate enlightened awareness about HIV/AIDS in India. She writes with knowledge, conviction and authority.
There is a need to demystify AIDS and talk about it in a dispassionate and non-judgmental way. I think Dr. Pavri's book will be a positive step towards that direction. The fact that the revised edition is coming out soon after its initial publication shows that this hope is not misplaced.
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