"African AIDS Victims to More Than Double in `90s"

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"African AIDS Victims to More Than Double in `90s"

Washington Post (12/18/91), P. A1
Okie, Susan

Abstract: The number of people with AIDS in Africa is expected to increase twofold by the year 2000, according to health officials at the World Health Organization's Sixth International Conference on AIDS in Africa in Dakar, Senegal. Michael H. Merson, director of WHO's Global Program on AIDS, said the number of adults with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa could increase from the current 6 million to about 15 million. More than 5 million African adults will die from AIDS by the year 2000, about five times the number who have developed the disease so far in sub-Saharan Africa. The main route of transmission in Africa is primarily among heterosexuals, who account for 80 percent of African AIDS patients. AIDS-related deaths among children in Africa will cancel out the decreases in child mortality accomplished in the last 20 years by immunization and other means. In addition, life expectancy in Africa, which was expected to increase from 50 to 60, will drop to 47 as a direct result of AIDS.

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