WORLD IN BRIEF : WORLDWIDE : AIDS Taking Heavy Toll of Children
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is striking many more children than previously thought, the World Health Organization reported. The U.N. agency said in Geneva that the HIV virus that causes AIDS will probably infect 10 million children by the year 2000. Already about 400,000 cases, or a third of the 1.2 million estimated cases of AIDS worldwide to date, are believed to have occurred in children under age 5.
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