Recent research has shown clearly that levels of mortality are not determined solely by income levels and the provision of modern health services. There appears to be an important sociocultural component so that the same density of health services produces lower mortality in one country than in...

Bangladesh adjoins the Asian region with the severest AIDS epidemic and has common borders with two of the most affected areas, the Indian Hill States and northern Burma. There has been disagreement about the danger to Bangladesh, one view citing the likelihood of transmission from neighbouring...