AIDS Situation Severe in Asia-Pacific

In its Global AIDS Report for 2002 released on July 2, 2002, the UNAIDS said that AIDS had spread to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region and was rampant in some areas. According to Sandro Calvani, chair of the UN Asia-Pacific AIDS subcommittee, the number of AIDS patients in Asia-Pacific had reached 6.6 million by the end of last year, only next to sub-Sahara. In 2001 alone, one million were added to the total number. India ranked the second in the world with 3.97 million A…