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Article: U.N. AIDS: HIV rising again in West, rampaging in East Europe and Central Asia.
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- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- March 15, 2004
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2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The virus that causes AIDS is spreading again in Western Europe and is rampaging through Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where it infected 250,000 people last year, a United Nations health official said February 23, 2004.
While Africa bears the brunt of the disease, Eastern Europe and Central Asia are experiencing the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the world, said Peter Piot, the executive director of the U.N. AIDS organization. In 1998, 30,000 people in those two regions had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but the number has since ballooned to 1.5 million, he said.
Piot spoke on the opening day of a 2-day ...