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  • Title: Cumulative infections approach 20 million.
    Journal: Glob AIDSnews; 1995; (1):5. PubMed ID: 12346160.
    Abstract:
    Around 2.5 million people were newly infected in 1994 with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to the Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) estimates published in January 1995. This raised the total number of people infected with HIV to 19.5 million, including 1.5 million children, since the start of the pandemic. Sub-Saharan Africa, where the cumulative number of infections among adults rose to an estimated 11 million, remained hardest hit by the pandemic. But proportionately the greatest increase by region was in south and south-east Asia, where the total of HIV infections among adults rose to 3 million in 1994 from 2 million at the end of 1993. The number of people estimated to have developed AIDS since the start of the pandemic rose to around 4.5 million at the end of 1994. This is more than four times the figure actually reported to GPA. The difference between the estimated and reported figures is attributed to underdiagnosis, underreporting, and statistical delays. Dr. Rand Stoneburner of GPA's surveillance, evaluation, and forecasting unit said recent surveillance data from south-east Asia illustrated the geographic expansion of the epidemic. A trend of rising HIV prevalence among blood donors in Chiang Mai, Thailand, was now being repeated, with a delay of 3 or 4 years in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. And there was already evidence that a similar curve could be traced further along the graph for Viet Nam.
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