International/Bangladesh

World Bank AIDS Projections Incense Government

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 14th, 1995

The Bangladesh government is incensed over a recent World Bank report that predicts there will be over a million cumulative cases of AIDS in the country during the first decade of the 21st century.

The report, prepared by a group of experts who visited the country in the last quarter of 1994, paints a grim scenario saying that the number of AIDS orphans in the country will be 20,000 by the year 2000 and jump to 150,000 by 2010.

It also says the number of tuberculosis cases related to infection with HIV will be 12,000 by the end of this decade and climb steadily thereafter.

Bangladesh Health Minister Chowdhury Ibne Yusuf has termed...

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