On World AIDS Day, a shadow looms over Southern Africa

Balter, M.

Science 282(5395): 90-1

1998


ISSN/ISBN: 0091-7729
Document Number: 260294
The latest statistics on AIDS bring bad news. UNAIDS, the UN's special AIDS program, releases the figures every year just before World AIDS Day on December 1. Around 5.8 million people worldwide were newly infected with HIV this year, bringing the total number of HIV-infected people to 33.4 million. Almost 70 percent of the new infections occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, still the hardest hit area of the world.

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