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Women Make Up Half of HIV Cases.
Byline: Jeremy Manier
Nov. 27--For the first time, about half the people worldwide living with the virus that causes AIDS are women, according to estimates in a new United Nations report.
The figures also present a stark warning about the swift inroads the deadly disease is making among millions of heterosexual victims from China--where officials fear there could be 10 million cases within a decade--to Africa.
HIV has so thoroughly devastated parts of southern Africa that it is amplifying the effects of an already urgent food crisis, with up to 60 percent of farms reporting some loss of agricultural workers to AIDS, according to the UN report released Tuesday.
Most of the disease's spread in Asia is coming from heterosexual contact and intravenous drug use, adding to concerns that the toll there could climb rapidly.
"We are far away from the gay white men's disease [AIDS] used to be," said Peter Piot, executive director of the UN program UNAIDS.
"Heterosexual transmission is on the rise in just about every…
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