Children, youngsters more severely threatened by AIDS

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Children, youngsters more severely threatened by AIDS

About one third of the 40 million AIDS victims in the world are young people below the age of 25, according to sources from the ongoing China Children's AIDS Protection and Treatment Forum.

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About one third of the 40 million AIDS victims in the world are young people below the age of 25, according to sources from the ongoing China Children's AIDS Protection and Treatment Forum.

There are 15,000 people infected with AIDS every day, 60 percent of whom are children and young people, according to the sources.

Prof. Zhao Yuqi, with the Medical College of America's Northwestern University, said at the forum that there are at least 3.2 million children in the world, aged below 15, who have died of AIDS. Meanwhile, another more than 11 million children in the world have become orphans due to the fatal disease.

The professor estimated that by 2010, there would be more than 40 million children in the world who would lose their parents because of AIDS.

Nowadays, the phenomenon of more and more young people becoming infected with AIDS has attracted worldwide attention. During the forum, the organization committee invited foreign specialists to give three-day training courses on AIDS protection and treatment of children to more than 80 Chinese pediatricians.

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