NEW DELHI (PTI): About eight million women and 10 million children will be infected with the HIV virus by the year 2000, according to are cent study conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO).
A majority of the women at risk will not be prostitutes as believed, but ordinary women, it says.
Using data available from different sources, the WHO estimates that currently there are eight to 10 million HIV infected persons in the world, out of which three million are women and one million children.
By mid-1980s, it was realized that women and children were among the worst affected segments of population.
In India AIDS prevention programs have frequently targeted Prostitutes as they are viewed as a “pool of infection” for AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 16, 1992
