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The AIDS Pandemic in the 21st Century

This report provides an update on one of the key international health and demographic events of our time, the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic, a source of some of the uncertainty associated with demographic change in the coming decades. It includes information on the impact of AIDS on mortality and population. In addition, the report reviews the current status of the HIV/AIDS epidemics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This report presents the methodology and results of incorporating AIDS mortality into the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates and projections for severely affected countries of the world. The available information and the methodology and assumptions used for incorporating AIDS mortality into the population estimates and projections are described in Appendix A. This report is also published as a chapter in the Census Bureau's Global Population Profile: 2002.