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(RE) AIDS could kill up to two million Africans by 2000

Reuters NewMedia, Inc.- 02 Oct 95

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuter) - The number of Africans infected with the AIDS virus is rising rapidly and up to two million people on the world's poorest continent could die of the disease within five years, a U.N. official said Monday.

Kingsley Amoako, executive secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), said, "The U.N. estimates that of the 15 hard-hit countries in Africa, approximately two million persons could die as a result of AIDS by the year 2000 if the present trend continues unabated."

He was addressing an opening session of a three-day AIDS seminar.

He said World Health Organization (WHO) estimates released in April 1995 indicated that almost 20 million adults and children worldwide were infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The 15 African countries which the U.N. official said were hardest hit by AIDS are Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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