This dossier is about HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. The selected articles provide a general overview of the scale of pandemic in the region, and look then at a number of aspects, such as the (political) problems surrounding the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, the specific implications for women, the role of the pharmaceutical industry in setting the prices of medicines, etc. The annex contains an extensive list of sources of documents available at NiZA-Bidoc. Most articles are in English, the introduction is in Dutch.