AIDs (1) Nov. 24 An estimated 5.3 million people, including 600,000 children under age 15, became infected with the virus that causes AIDS this year, the World Health Organization said today. For the first time the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa stabilized, but that was offset by increases in morbidity (the rate the disease was contracted) and deaths in the region. An estimated 3.8 million people in the region were newly infected this year with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, down from 4 million in 1999. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to about one-tenth of the world's population but accounted for 72 percent of new infections last year. The region also has 70 percent of the people living with the virus or with AIDS, and 80 percent of the deaths in the past year, according to the health agency's Weekly Epidemiological Record. Worldwide, 36.1 million adults and children are estimated to be living with AIDS or the virus, split almost equally between men and women. In the two decades since the disease was recognized, it has killed an estimated 21.8 million people, inc......

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