Agency Predicts Aids Will Orphan 10 Million

Thu., Dec. 14, 1995

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More than 10 million African children will be made orphans by the AIDS virus by the end of the century, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The U.N. agency also predicted that up to 10 million children will have been born with the disease in Africa by the year 2000, infected by their parents and doomed to die.

WHO made the forecasts in a paper read to more than 3,000 delegates attending an international conference on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in Uganda’s capital, Kampala.

The Geneva-based agency estimated that one of every 30 people in sub-Saharan Africa between the ages of 15 and 49 is infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

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