GLOBAL AIDS SITUATION AND PROJECTIONS TO THE YEAR 2000

Abstract

As of 1 June 1990, a cumulative total of 263,051 cases of AIDS were reported officially to the World Health Organization from 156 countries (Table 1). Of reported cases, 61.1 % are from 44 countries in the Americas; 24.6% from 51 African countries; 13.3% from 29 European countries; and the remaining 1 % from 32 countries throughout Asia and Oceania. However, reporting is incomplete; the actual cumulative global total of AIDS is estimated at over half a million, more than three times the number reported, (Global AIDS fact file June 1990).

Nevertheless, it is the epidemiology of HIV infection which provides a more complete and current view of the Pandemic. At the beginning of this decade, about l00,(XX) persons worldwide were infected with HIV .During the n1980s, between 8 and 10 million people became infected.