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  • Title: HIV / AIDS takes toll in Mozambique.
    Journal: AIDS Wkly Plus; 1997 Jun 30; ():23-4. PubMed ID: 12292417.
    Abstract:
    More than 985,000 Mozambican adults are estimated to have been infected with HIV. At the end of 1994, Mozambique had reported 826 cases of AIDS to the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the country's health officials now say that 37,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses up to 1996. The Health Ministry has reported that more than 146,000 children had been orphaned due to AIDS through December 1996, and that there could be as many as 400,000 orphans in the country by the year 2000. This increase in the number of orphans in Mozambique may result in an increase in the number of street children and child laborers. The director of the National STD/AIDS Control Program argues that life expectancy in Mozambique would have reached 53 years by the end of the century in the absence of HIV/AIDS. However, with AIDS, the current life expectancy of 46.4 years will probably not increase by the year 2000. Unless measures are taken to prevent the spread of HIV, the extent of HIV infection could reach levels experienced in South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania.
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