My landlady, in Providence, is a high-school teacher and asked me to give a presentation about HIV while I am here... Thought to use Gapminder and HIV because I have worked on both of them. I compared USA, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Canada and Sweden. The prevalence in USA in 1985 was 0.3% which was similar to South Africa in 1988, India in 1996 but in Zimbabwe that made an interesting jump in prevalence >1% (1.3%) in 1980. Today HIV prevalence rate in high-income countries is The interesting part is between Canada and Sweden, that both provide access to health care, but Canada social model is built on in-migration, although they screen their applicants for HIV. So does it mean it is an internal epidemic? Around 2004, I think, there was study in Sweden that have looked into why HIV patients come late to seek care, and most probably was due to lack of information on HIV. People used to relate HIV sickness to the horrifying AIDS pictures in the early 1980s before availability of a...