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HIV, international travel and tourism: global issues and Pacific perspectives.

Asia Pac J Public Health. 1992-93;6(3):159-67. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/94114312
Lewis ND; Bailey J; Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu; 96822.

Abstract: AIDS, like plagues throughout human history, has been blamed repeatedly on foreigners. This has heightened ramifications, from the personal to the geopolitical, in an era of escalating population movement and rapid international travel. By the end of 1990, the World Health Organization had estimated that the total number of AIDS cases worldwide was close to 1.3 million. Recent estimates suggest that by the year 2000, 38-100 million adults and over 10 million children will have been infected with HIV. Seventy-five to eighty-five percent of that number will be from the developing world. AIDS has rapidly become pandemic, with wide-ranging consequences for humankind. Human population movement is an important component in the natural history of AIDS. With respect to this, a central consideration is the relationship between AIDS and international travel, especially tourism. In this paper, after reviewing HIV in the Asia-Pacific region, we present the epidemiology of HIV in the Pacific Islands, discuss its impact with particular reference to population movement, and explore some of the specific challenges that the Pacific Island region faces.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION Asia/EPIDEMIOLOGY Female Human Male Pacific Islands/EPIDEMIOLOGY Population Dynamics Sex Behavior Socioeconomic Factors Support, Non-U.S. Gov't *Travel World Health JOURNAL ARTICLEKWDacquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome/epidemiology/KWDtransmissionasia/epidemiologyfemalehumanmalepacificislands/epidemiologypopulationdynamicssexbehaviorsocioeconomicfactorssupport,non-uKWDsKWDgov'tKWDtravelworldhealthjournalarticle
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