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News Briefs Leap in HIV/AIDS Prompts Plea for Earlier EducationDecember 31, 2001 A surge in HIV/AIDS cases among young people has spurred health educators to press for more aggressive promotion of condoms and education about the disease even before children become sexually active. "It's already too late for many," says a new report from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. "Even if HIV risk were cut in half by 2015, in some countries 20 percent to 80 percent of today's 15-year-old boys still would die of AIDS," the report said. The UN estimates that 11.8 million women and men ages 15 to 24 worldwide have AIDS. It estimates there are 147,000 young people with AIDS in North America -- 100,000 men and 47,000 women. Back to other CDC news for December 31, 2001 Orange County Register 12.29.01  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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