"AIDS Likely to Claim 6 Million Africans in `90s, Becoming Top Killer"

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"AIDS Likely to Claim 6 Million Africans in `90s, Becoming Top Killer"

Baltimore Sun (12/17/91), P. 6A

Abstract: AIDS is expected to kill more than 6 million Africans within the next decade and will dominate as the continent's number one killer, according to President Abdou Diouf of Senegal, who spoke at the World Health Organization's Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Africa yesterday. About 2,500 delegates from 80 nations gathered yesterday in Dakar, Senegal for the conference. The delegates were told that there will be 4 million babies born with AIDS over the next 10 years in Africa. The disease has already attacked entire families. Also, in some African cities 80 percent of the hospital beds are occupied with AIDS patients. Dr. Michael Merson, director of WHO's Global Program on AIDS, said that the number of adult Africans killed by AIDS during the 1990s would double or triple the total number of deaths from all other causes.

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