ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to Part 2 of this book. The part provides a thoughtful, clear, and thorough description of the epidemiology of AIDS in Cuba and the country’s evolving efforts to develop a comprehensive program for the control of its human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. If Cuba represents one example of a Third World country’s response to AIDS, in which government programs have distorted the relationship between individual and collective responsibility for AIDS prevention, then according to Herbert Daniel, one of Brazil’s leading AIDS activists, Brazil is the nightmare we all hope to escape. The part offers a searing indictment of the insufficient and outrageous response of the Brazilian government, media, and society to a rapidly escalating epidemic of already overwhelming proportions.
