Adam.Selene@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Adam Selene) (07/18/89)
17 W.H.O. AIDS STATS
REF: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATE: 7 APRIL 1989
[A BACKROOM REPRINT]
GENEVA - Reports from two African countries accounted for one-third of the
nearly 4,700 new AIDS cases compiled from around the globe last month, the
World Health Organization said Friday.
A total of 146,569 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome were
reported from 148 countries and territories by the end of March, an
increase of 4,675, the U.N. agency's latest monthly report shows. Twenty-
nine countries said they had no cases of the fatal disease.
Uganda overtook France as the country with the second-highest total behind
the United States, which has about 60 percent of all reported AIDS cases.
The African nation reported 490 new cases for August through October,
raising its total to 5,998. France, which did not update its figures,
listed 5,655 cases, still by far the highest in Europe.
Tanzania reported the biggest increase -- 1,100 -- for a total of 4,158
cases as of Dec. 31.
Uganda and Tanzania accounted for one-third of new cases in the WHO report.
Two other African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, also reported
significant increases.
The U.S. total rose to 86,656, an increase of 499 cases. The Soviet Union,
reporting for November-December, listed two new cases for a total of seven.
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