PREFACE; GLOBAL SUMMARY OF THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC, DECEMBER 2003; INTRODUCTION; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA; ASIA AND THE PACIFIC; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA; HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES; DEFUSING STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION; MAPS
Summary
This annual update provides global and regional estimates of HIV/AIDS and its impact. It also reviews the most recent data available from countries and discusses the trends in HIV in countries around the world. UNAIDS and WHO, together with experts from national AIDS programmes and research institutions, regularly review and update the estimates as improved knowledge about the epidemic becomes available, while also drawing on advances made in the methods for deriving estimates
