Subject: Total AIDS Cases Reported To Agency Reaches 96,433
Date: Published: 6/6/88 36 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Total AIDS Cases Reported
    To Agency Reaches 96,433

   GENEVA (AP) -- The number of AIDS cases reported to the
World Health Organization stood at 96,433 last Tuesday,
including 7,387 new cases registered in 75 countries since
the beginning of the year.
   Updated reports from the U. S., France, Italy, Canada and
Haiti accounted for 78% of the recorded increase through May,
according to figures released last week.
   The U. S. total of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
cases reported stood at 61,580, including 4,348 new victims
from January through April.
   France trailed the U. S. as the country with the
second-highest number of cases, 3,628, including 555 new
cases during the 1988 first quarter.
   Brazil had the third-highest overall total, with 2,956
cases.  It reported 206 new cases from January through April.
In all of 1987, the country had 1,361 new cases.
   Other countries that showed disproportionately high
increases included Haiti, with 231 new cases through April.
In all of last year, Haiti reported just 331 cases.  Italy
recorded 387 new cases, and Canada had 232.  The U. S. had the
highest case rate among all industrialized countries, with
8.5 AIDS victims per 100,000 people.  France had a rate of
3.3, Australia 2.1, and Canada 1.9.

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