ABSTRACT
This volume addresses the effectiveness of global and national responses to HIV/AIDS as well as mapping out the contours of the crucial debate regarding the direction and scope for future governance. The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is a long-term event whose impact unfolds over many decades rather than months. Twenty-five years after seeing the first infection, the faces of the epidemic are increasingly the faces of women, especially young women; orphans who will have to grow up without the nurturing of parents; and the rising number of people living with HIV/AIDS. More worrying still, there is no convincing evidence to suggest that the epidemic is significantly slowing down anywhere in the world. Each day that HIV/AIDS continues to spread therefore adds to the ramifications and duration of its likely impact.
