The World Health Organ! nation (WHO! has warned that about 40 million people around the world will carry HIV. the virus for deadly AIDS ( Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), by the end of the century, reports UNB.

With perhaps one million deaths from AIDS per year, an estimated 10 to 15 million children could lose their parents across the globe to the disease before the year 2000

Thia was disclosed at a press conference In Dhaka yesterday on the occasion of publication of World Population Report : 1993 of the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA).

The WHO global programme on AIDS reports that about 15 million cases of AIDS have occurred. Some 13 million men. •omen and children had been Infected with the AIDS virus HIV from the start of the pandemic to January 1993.

There were an estimated 1 million new infections In the second half of 1993. the majority In South and South-east Asia and In Sub-Saharan Africa

WHO estimates that there will be 40 million infections by the end of the century, and perhaps a million deaths a year

The break up of AIDS Infections are Africa has had over 7 6 millton HIV, America ever t million, Western Europe about 600,000. North Africa and the Middle East about 75,000, Eastern Europe and central Asia about 50,000, East Asia and the Pacific about 25,000 and Australia 25,000.

The threat of AIDS may encourage the use of condoms, which may have Its own effect on fertility. On the other hand, AIDS contributes to social instability, insecurity and poverty — conditions which typically accompany high fertility.