Reports on HIV/AIDS: 1990

NOVEMBER 30, 1990, MMWR, Vol. 39, No. 47, pp. 850-853
TABLE 1. Cumulative AIDS cases reported by 32 countries and annual incidence rates
and estimated cumulative incidence rates per million population - World Health
Organization (WHO) European Region, through March 31, 1990
Cumulative Cumulative
through through Annual* Annual Cumulative
Country March 1989 March 1990 cases incidence incidence
Albania 0 0 0 0.0 0.0
Austria 191 415 224 29.5 54.6
Belgium 474 651 177 17.9 65.8
Bulgaria 3 7 4 0.4 0.8
Czechoslovakia 17 23 6 0.4 1.5
Denmark 392 573 181 35.5 112.4
Federal Republic
of Germany 3,086 4,653 1,567 25.5 75.7
Finland 42 58 16 3.2 11.6
France 6,409 9,718 3,309 59.0 173.2
German Democratic
Republic 13 19 6 0.4 1.1
Greece 205 295 90 9.0 29.5
Hungary 21 34 13 1.2 3.2
Iceland 11 13 2 4.0 26.0
Ireland 88 142 54 15.4 40.6
israel 79 109 30 6.7 24.2
Italy 3,494 6,068 2,574 44.7 105.3
Luxembourg 16 26 10 25.0 65.0
Malta 14 14 0 0.0 35.0
Monaco 0 2 2 85.5 85.5
Netherlands 791 1,189 398 26.7 79.8
Norway 111 153 42 10.0 36.4
Poland 8 35 27 0.7 0.9
Portugal 224 410 186 17.9 39.4
Romaniat 10 478 468 20.2 20.6
San Marino 0 1 1 50.0 50.0
Spain 2,781 5,295 2,514 64.1 135.1
Sweden 280 406 126 14.8 47.8
Switzerland 806 1,255 449 68.0 190.2
Turkey 17 31 14 0.3 0.6
United Kingdom 2,192 3,157 965 16.8 55.1
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics 7 26 19 0.1 0.1
Yugoslavia 75 120 45 1.9 5.1
Total 21,857 35,376 13,519 - -
*April 1989-March 1990.
tThrough December 1989, Romania reported a total of 69 cases, including 48 in infants and
children presumably infected by blood transfusions or through the use of unsterile equipment
used to administer medical injections. By March 1990 (following an investigation by the
Romanian Ministry of Health [MOH] in collaboration with WHO), an additional 409 cases had
been reported (478 cumulative cases). Because most cases occurred in infants and young
children and because diagnostic capabilities were limited, the Romanian MOH adopted a
modification of the WHO Bangui clinical case definition (reported cases must have serologic
evidence of HIV infection) for use in AIDS surveillance (2,3). These 409 cases subsequently
were reclassified according to the WHO/CDC AIDS case definition used in the European Region
and integrated in the European AIDS surveillance data in this report.

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