HIV and the Double Burden of the Pandemic

The struggle of our nation has been proven time and again throughout history. Armed with this long history, we should once again prove that we can indeed overcome this dual pandemic problem.

Head of the Children\'s Infection and Tropics Division, Department of Pediatrics, Child HIV Coordinator at the Medical School of Unair/Dr Soetomo Hospital Surabaya

A milestone in medical science was reached on 5 June, 1981 when the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report the presence of pneumonia caused by the parasite Pneumocystis carinii in five young men.