Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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Americans who suffer from AIDS is 21,000
and nearly half of them are expected to die.
About 100,000 to 200,000 have AIDS-related
diseases
including
lymphadenopathy,
thrombocytopemia, condidiasis, diarrhoea,
fever,
hairy
leukoplakia,
dementia,
neuropathy and Hodgkins.
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Here is another report, this time of a conference
held in the first week of July 1986 in Paris:
According to experts participating in a
conference on AIDS held in Paris last week,
there will be 300,000 new cases of AIDS in
1991 alone if the virus spreads in the rest of
the world as it has in the U.S. In the U.S.,
74,000 new AIDS cases are forecast for the
same year. It was estimated that by then more
than a quarter of a million Americans would
have caught the disease and 179,000 would
have died. The U.S. hospital bill for AIDS for
1991 is forecast to be $ 8 billion. At present,
France is the worst affected European country
and had recorded about 700 cases by the first
quarter of this year. West Germany is next
