Epidemiology

Global HIV Cases Up 10 Percent in 1998

Published in AIDS Weekly, December 7th, 1998

Nearly 20 years into the AIDS epidemic and despite drugs and improved prevention, global HIV infections rose 10 percent in 1998 with half of the new cases were in young people under 24.

During every minute of the year, 11 people - men, women, and children - contracted HIV, bringing the worldwide total to 33.4 million infected people. The United Nations agency (UNAIDS) said more than 95 percent of all HIV infected people now live in the developing world.

"The epidemic has not been overcome anywhere. Virtually every country in the world has seen new infections in 1998 and the epidemic is ... out of control in many places," UNAIDS said in its annual...

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