It has been approximately two decades since the first case of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome was reported in Malaysia. Following a small increase in the number of new reported cases of HIM infection and AIDS in the few ensuing years, a rapid explosion of the epidemic took place in the mid 1990s with 4000 and latterly close to 7000 new HIV infections reported annually. The cumulative total reported HIV cases to September 2004 was 61486, with 8955 AIDS cases. The number of deaths due to AIDS to date has totalled a staggering 6665 cases.