Everyone knows about AIDS and that it affects so much people. For those in North America, AIDS hasn't reached a point where society is becoming devastated by it, but elsewhere it's a different story.
In Africa, there're some countries where at least a third of adult professionals including teachers, police and other workers are infected, and in Botswana, upwards of 40 percent of the total population is infected. In fact, deaths actually outnumber births in several Southern African countries.
Elsewhere AIDS is rising rapidly in India, China, SE Asia, the Caribbean and Russia.
AIDS in increasingly becoming a global tragedy as this article states.

Education, lifestyle changes, condoms and improved health care including cheaper drugs, these are all methods to combat AIDS.