There are an estimated 1.6 million people living with HIV in the developed-world countries of North America and Western Europe, as of the end of 2004, one million in north America (940,000 of them in the USA) and 600,000 in Europe. The adult HIV prevalence rate in what could be called the ‘North Atlantic Countries’ is 0.4%. Women constitute 26% of the total infected adult population. In 2002, 64,000 people were newly infected in this region and 23,000 deaths due to AIDS were recorded.