UP 60 PERCENT

Friday, July 01, 1994
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The United Nations' health agency estimates the number of full-blown AIDS cases around the world rose from 2.5 million to 4 million during the past year. According to a new report from the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of AIDS patients at 2.5 million, while cases in Asia spread eightfold, from 30,000 to 250,000--faster than anywhere else in the world. Worse, the WHO thinks between 30 million and 40 million people will have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by the year 2000.parpar