AIDS Spread Continued in ‘89, World Health Organization Says
The reported number of AIDS cases worldwide rose by more than 50% in 1989, to over 200,000, despite a global prevention campaign.
Reports to the World Health Organization from 177 countries and territories indicated a cumulative total of 203,599 cases by the end of 1989, contrasted with 132,976 at the end of 1988, according to the organization’s figures.
However, many of those cases that are now being reported were infected with the virus several years ago, and some of those reported during 1989 had developed full-scale AIDS in earlier years but had not been listed because of inefficient reporting networks. In fact, the latest U.S. figures show a slowing in the rate of growth of the epidemic.
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