An AIDS Appraisal

About 40 million people worldwide live with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. And about 3 million of them will die from AIDS this year, including more than half a million children.

Those numbers are staggering. But they're just the start of the story. To get a better sense of the global AIDS crisis, you have to follow the virus around the world--because where we are in the fight against AIDS depends to a large degree on where in the world we are.

In the West, prevention programs and anti-retroviral drug treatments have lessened the disease's impact--though more than a million people still live with AIDS in the United States alone. Elsewhere, the outlook is far scarier. Here's how the fight against AIDS is going in three key places: Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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