Record 5 million people worldwide became infected with HIV in ‘03
[20% of the entire continent. The 4 million figure for India is surprising… of course, there are 1,400 million people in the country, so the infection rate is about the same as here in the U.S. It is incredible to think that 2 out of every 5 people in an entire country could be infected. Of course, this isn’t an automatic death sentence any more… except that the reprieve is entirely theoretical for most people at this point. -Thomas]
Record 5 million people worldwide became infected with HIV in ‘03
Marilynn Marchione
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nov. 25, 2003 05:39 PM
MILWAUKEE - One in five adults in Africa now has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the annual United Nations report on the scope of the epidemic.
A record 5 million people became infected with HIV worldwide and 3 million died of the disease during 2003, the report says.
Every day, about 14,000 people were newly infected.
“It comes down to 10 people a minute,” said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which issued the report with the World Health Organization in advance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
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