§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children in the United Kingdom were born with AIDS in 1989; what were the figures for the previous three years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 15 June 1990]: There are no reports to the public health laboratory service communicable disease surveillance centre or to the communicable diseases (Scotland) unit of children being born with AIDS. The cumulative total of reports of children born with HIV antibody, to end 1989 is 144. Most of these children are not infected but acquired HIV antibody from their mother. If the child is not itself infected this maternal antibody disappears within the first 18 months of life. There have been 23 reports of children developing AIDS, whose parents were HIV-infected or at risk of infection.
§ Mr. Alex CarlileTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people in the United Kingdom will be infected with the AIDS virus by the year 2000 if the current rate of growth is maintained.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomley[holding answer 15 June 1990]: It is not possible to predict how many cases of AIDS or HIV-infected individuals there will be by the year 2000. The Day report "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in England and Wales to end 1993", published in February 1990, projected that there would be 4,980 cases of AIDS at the end of 1993, and up to 46,450 people infected with HIV by the end of 1990.
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