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HIV/AIDS: The Looming Asia Pacific Pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Bill Bowtell
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Contemplating the appalling mismanagement of the global political response to the emergence and early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that the greatest enemy of rational public policy making is not, as might have been expected in the case of AIDS, nihilism and paralyzing despair.

Rather, the staggering inability of the global community to prevent the long, relentless march of AIDS from its African origins to the shores of the Asia Pacific owes a great deal to the limitless capacity of human beings for invincible optimism. Time and again, evidence that the HIV virus was a dangerous threat requiring decisive pre-emptive containment action was ignored or discounted.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 9 , September 2007 , e16
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