AIDS Cases Grow, World Agency Says
The number of victims of AIDS has grown to a total 32,590 cases in 74 countries, the World Health Organization said Friday.
This represented an increase of more than 12,000 cases since last January, when overall cases reported since the beginning of the epidemic five years ago stood at 20,476.
Dr. Jonathan Mann, chief of a special AIDS unit at the Geneva-based agency, told a news conference that 86% of the latest estimate, or 27,166 cases, came from 33 countries in North and South America, including 25,515 in the United States.
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