Traveling through skin manifestations of HIV in 2001.

There are currently over 34 million people worldwide infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with 15,000 new patients infected each day. The acquired immunodefiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic has particularly affected the third world and currently over 70% of those infected reside in sub-Saharan Africa. The epicenter of the pandemic is shifting to Asia as HIV infection increases in the densely populated countries of India, China, and SE Asia. Patients with HIV infection develop a variety of mucocutaneous diseases and often present to dermatologists.