ABSTRACT
Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome) epidemic more than two decades ago, HIV/AIDS has become a major disease of the developing world, decimating the continent of Africa and rapidly spreading through Asia where it is contracted primarily through heterosexual transmission and drug use. In Thailand, for example, the large sex industry, as well as proximity to the Golden Triangle with its supplies of heroin, fuelled the epidemic throughout the 1990s.
