'People do stupid things, that's what spreads HIV'

'People do stupid things, that's what spreads HIV'

When Elizabeth Pisani began her career as an HIV epidemiologist, fewer than 1,5-million cases of HIV/Aids had been reported across the world. Within a year, by the end of 1997, 30-million people were estimated to be infected with HIV. As Pisani wrote in her first report for World Aids Day, that meant one in every 100 sexually active adults aged between 15 and 49 worldwide.

Mail & Guardian Online 5/13/08 9:10 AM Decca Aitkenhead international