The New York Times
Saturday, November 25, 2000
Amen Ministries of Austin��///� Oxbows Ministries International�
P.O. Box 27683 - Austin, Texas� 78755
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| More than 5 million infected with HIV/AIDS during 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| By Elizabeth Olson The New York Times Saturday, November 25, 2000 |
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| GENEVA -- An estimated 5.3 million people, including 600,000 children younger than 15, were infected with HIV/AIDS this year, the World Health Organization said Friday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is the first year that the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa appeared to have stabilized, but that was offset by increases in morbidity -- the rate the disease was contracted -- and mortality in the same region during 2000. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An estimated 3.8 million people in the region were newly infected with HIV last year, as opposed to a total of 4 million there during 1999. The region is home to about one-tenth of the world's population but remains the world's hardest-hit by AIDS. Not only did it account for 72 percent of new HIV infections last year, but the region also had 70 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS and 80 percent of the AIDS deaths in the past year, according to WHO's Weekly Epidemiological Record. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Worldwide, 36.1 million adults and children are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. The adults are split almost equally between men and women, with an estimated 18.2 million men between age 15 and 49 living with the fatal disease, the U.N. health agency said. It said that the decline in AIDS cases in industrialized countries is being offset by the increases in reports from developing countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In the two decades since the pandemic disease was recognized, anestimated 21.8 million adults and children have died from the disease. Of those, an estimated 3 million died this year. The numbers of women dying have continued to increase, accounting for an estimated 52 percent of such adult deaths this year, the WHO said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The disease continues to claim new victims in all parts of the world, including industrialized countries, the report said. Thousands of people continue to become infected in North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, although the availability of retroviral therapy continues to slow progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS and death, the agency said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| www.aamen.org www.oxbows.com Amen Ministries of Austin��///� Oxbows Ministries International� P.O. Box 27683 - Austin, Texas� 78755 |
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