Subject: World Wire 
Date: Published: 3/11/91 (38 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    International:
    World Wire
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    Compiled by Richard L. Holman

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    WHO PROJECTS HIV CASES
    By the mid-1990s, more than three million people in the
 Western Hemisphere will have been infected with human
 immunodeficiency virus, which causes acquired immune
 deficiency syndrome, the Pan American Health Organization
 said.  Three-fourths of those who contracted the infection
 before last year will have died by 1995, said the agency,
 which is the World Health Organization's Americas regional
 office.
    Almost two million people in the Western Hemisphere have
 already been infected with HIV.  Of those, more than one
 million infections are in the U. S. and Canada, and the rest
 in Latin America and the Caribbean.  As of this year, an
 estimated 500,000 AIDS cases occurred in the hemisphere.
    In some Caribbean countries and North American cities,
 AIDS is the leading cause of death of men aged 25 to 34.
 Latin America is experiencing a rapid increase in epidemic.  
 Cases are underrecognized and underreported.
    Recent analyses show that in the Western Hemisphere, more
 than 90% of HIV transmission is by sexual intercourse, with
 an increasing proportion of that heterosexual; less than 10%
 is by blood transfusion or needles.

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