Since the founding of AIDCOM in 1986 and this journal’s first edition in 1989, its articles have reached into Africa and into countries around the globe, including Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, Nepal, Norway, Netherlands, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Thailand, and the USA. Its founding editor Khairul Bashar, who left this earth in 2015, would be happy to see this and future issues of the Journal reaching farther around the globe via the internet ― and raising its original modest circulation from a few hundred to potentially thousands. We anticipate this broader exposure will attract not only new readers but also new contributors.