NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 8, 2001: India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa each have at least two million adults suffering from AIDS or infected with the HIV virus, according to a new UN statistical analysis released on Thursday. And in five African countries — Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe — at least 20 percent of the population or one out of every five adults is infected with the killer disease. “We’ve gone from a bad to a worse situation and we haven’t reached the peak yet in terms of illness, death, population loss and human suffering,” said Joseph Chamie, director of the United Nations Population Division, which prepared the charts.
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