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Main Findings:
The impact of AIDS in developing countries is serious
AIDS is reversing decades of progress in improving quality of life in developing countries. HIV is continuing to spread and is increasing poverty in the developing world. Every day, 8,500 people become infected.
- 23 million people are infected with HIV worldwide. Nine out of ten people with HIV/AIDS are in developing countries and nearly half of them are women. More than 800,000 children are infected with HI. (pp. 13, 14)
- Life expectancy in Zimbabwe is 22 years shorter than it would have been in the absence of the AIDS epidemic. (p.23)
- AIDS is making poor families poorer. In Tanzania, orphaned children are more malnourished than others and older children are dropping out of school to cope with adult deaths. (p. 37, also pp. 221 - 228)
Estimated number of adults with HIV/AIDS, 1997
(For more data, see the Statistical Appendix)
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