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The New York Times - December 9, 1986
Dr. Jonathan Mann, director of organization's AIDS program, warned last week that Brazil, where case reports have climbed from six in 1982 to more than 800 as of September, "has the potential for an African-style epidemic of AIDS." While only a handful of cases have been reported in Asia so far, officials are worried that the disease may be spreading in such countries as Thailand, the Philippines and India, especially via prostitution and intravenous drug addiction. In Bangkok, where prostitution is common, the AIDS virus, which spreads through sexual intercourse and infected blood "is knocking on the door," Dr. Mann said.
He spoke at a Washington symposium sponsored by the Panos Institute, a London research organization. The institute reported that several African countries were not yet screening blood transfusions for the AIDS virus and called for vast campaigns to encourage use of condoms and fewer sexual partners. Heterosexual intercourse is believed to be the major transmission route for the virus in Africa, where more than one million people are expected to die of AIDS within a decade. And, according to the Panos report, doctors in Zambia predict that 6,000 babies will have developed AIDS by the end of next year in that country alone. In the United States fewer than four hundred infants have developed AIDS.
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