Country has more than half of all Central American AIDS cases. (Honduras)

Honduras

A World Health Organization (WHO) report shows that Honduras has 3,193 of the 5,600 reported AIDS cases in Central America, though the country has only 17 percent of the region's population.

Delia Tercero of the Honduran Health Ministry said officials estimate the number of AIDS sufferers in Honduras will increase nearly fivefold by the year 2,000 to 15,000.

Although 3,193 of the 5,600 Central American AIDS cases, about 57 percent of the total, are in Honduras, only 60,000 of the region's estimated 200,000 HIV carriers - 30 percent of the total - are in the …