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The epidemic could cost 121 million lives by 2020, he said, with child and infant mor tality already being affected in some countries. “It will take major changes in behavior to radically alter the course of this epidemic,” Way said. The 1994 look at the world’s people adds a special section on the AIDS pandemic and its effects. The report also found that: • The world’s population now totals 5.6 billion, more than double the 2.6 billion who shared the planet in 1950. It’s expected to reach 7.9 billion by 2020. • More than half the people in the world live in just six countries — China, India, Unit ed States, Indonesia, Brazil and Russia. • World population growth has slowed to about 1.5 percent per year, after peaking at near 2 percent in the 1960s. Declining fertility rates have slowed growth. • Half the world’s people are under age 25. • India, the world leader in births, will record more births this year than the 50 sub- Saharan African countries combined. • Around the world, 10,000 babies are born every hour. The Census Bureau studies world popula tion to put the United States population pic ture in perspective, said Judith Banister of the bureau. This year's study is designed for use by US. officials attending the world population con ference scheduled for Cairo in October, she said. Though AIDS is a relatively new disease, it has spread worldwide. More than 14 million people are infected by HIV, the virus that caus es AIDS, the report estimated. Africa south of the Sahara Desert accounts for an estimated 8 million HIV infections,«• cording to the World Health Organization, more than half the world total. Spread of the disease in Africa tends tolt through heterosexual contact, unlike Europt and North America, where homosexual activi ty and drug use are the more common me® of infection, the census study noted. The report found that infant andchildmot- tality in Zambia is 15 percent higher nowtk it was a decade ago. In addition to direct impact, tire survivalo: non-infected children may be endangeredtp the death of one or both parents, the adds. For example, statistics on orphans(oi Uganda indicate that adult male mor 1991 was higher than in 1969. Mother-to-child spread of AIDS is a sig cant problem in many African countries, report found. Because AIDS deaths are concentrated in lit childhood and middle adult ages the results in the loss of many years of poteniii life. This impact is expected to be lessincoi® tries such as the United States where the nit of infection with HIV is relatively lower. Inji dition, Way noted that the impact is less® children in countries where the disease! spread by homosexual contact and drugs k where it is spread by heterosexual contact. Friday, April Sigr The Associate South Africans continue history-making vote The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Most of South Africa stumbled to the finish of its history-making election Thursday after a titanic effort to move ballots to millions of people voting to end three centuries of white rule. Air force planes rushed hastily printed ballots to trouble spots in the hinterlands, and helicopters equipped with loudspeakers cir cled rural areas announcing where to vote. But time ran out in some re mote areas that were bedeviled by shortages of ballots, indelible ink and stickers, and the Independent Electoral Commission autnorized some rural regions to continue voting Friday. Election officials said the counting would start at 6 a.m. Saturday, and they plan to issue hourly results as the counting progresses. The crush of people seen at polling stations on Wednesday was not as evident Thursday, as people turned out to elect the country’s first government repre senting blacks, who make up three-fourths of the population. For one thing, it appeared the vast majority of first-time black voters in their enthusiasm had stormed the polls Wednesday, the first day of general voting. All signs pointed a massin turnout among the country's!] million voters, but there wetti immediate figures from electit: officials. The odds-on favoritt be president was African Natioi Congress leader Nelson Mandck "Happy, happy. I nearlj jumped out of my skin andstd next to my body,’ said Eddy Ml a vegetable vendor who wasoii of the last voters in Soweto, «• side Johannesburg. CAVENDER W E E K E N GI AG ANTI O SAVINGS EVERYTHING ON SALE NOW! 10% OFF! 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