Pediatrics

AIDS Epidemic Ravaging Children

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 15th, 1997

The AIDS epidemic is worse than anyone feared, with HIV infecting twice as many people than experts calculated and threatening to orphan more than 40 million children, experts said.

Heads of the top agencies fighting AIDS, from the United Nations to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), urged governments to give more to fight the virus and said there was new hope for preventing its spread.

"The epidemic is not over," Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS, told a news conference held to mark World AIDS Day, December 1.

"Five years ago, we believed that about 12 million people in the world were infected with [HIV]," said...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-12-15)

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