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Integrated Regional Information Networks - April 22, 1999
Mugabe announced the casualty figures in a speech marking the country's 19th independence anniversary at the weekend.
Government officials said an estimated 20 percent of the country's 12.7 million people were infected with the disease.
A spokesperson for the national AIDS control programme told IRIN this week that between 1987 and June 1998 an estimated 33,250 women had died from AIDS-related illnesses. She said 725 children under five had died last year with 206 deaths reported among children in the 5-14 age group.
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