The World - News from Dec. 27, 1985
An official of the Central African nation of Rwanda reported that 319 cases of AIDS have been diagnosed there since 1983. Christophe Mfizi, director of Rwanda’s information office, said 106 of the AIDS victims have died. He also said that of the 319 cases, 86 are under the age of 15. Mfizi’s revelations, made in a telephone interview with reporters in Nairobi, Kenya, marked the largest disclosure by an African country of the presence of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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