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Those persons infected with the AIDS virus "will soar
to 40 million" by the year 2000.
About 16,000 people are infected daily, one in every 100 sexually
active adults under age 49 worldwide has HIV and, among those
infected, only one in 10 knows it, UNAIDS said in the report released
in Paris this year.
Estimated numbers of persons living
with HIV/AIDS as of the end of 1997 including increases or decreases since
late 1996:
Global total: 30.6 million -- (+8 million)
North America - 860,00 -- (+110,000)
Caribbean & Latin America -- 1.61 million -- (+40,000)
Western Europe --530,000 -- (+20,000)
Africa & Middle East -- 210,000 -- (+10,000)
Sub-Saharan Africa -- 20.8 million -- (+6.8 million)
Eastern Europe & Central Asia -- 150,000 --(+100,000)
South & Southeast Asia -- 6.0 million -- (+800,000)
East Asia & Pacific -- 440,000 -- (+340,000)
Australia & New Zealand -- 12,000 -- (-1,000) a decrease.
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