ABSTRACT
Although migrants’ particular risk for HIV was a theme that was downplayed in the development of the book, the factors that may render migrants particularly vulnerable to HIV was a leitmotif that nevertheless appears in practically all the chapters.1 All the authors writing here, in line with advances in thinking about AIDS prevention, specifically and vehemently exclude any notion of ‘risk group’ as one might attempt to apply it to migrants, but the notion of ‘risk situation’ is more extensively discussed, especially by Carballo and Siem, Sherr and Farsides, and Sabatier. They point out that many migrants may live in unfavourable social and economic conditions in host countries, exposed to the social inequalities now well-known to be related to HIV transmission.
