DATA BRIEFS: (Continued) Alarm for Asia The crisis Africa has faced for over a decade now appears poised to erupt on a wider scale. Higher prevalence among children is one indication of the rapid spread of the virus, and HIV prevalence among children is beginning to increase in a number of countries that, until recently, have seen a relatively low incidence. In India, for example, 48,000 children were infected with HIV at the end of 1997, triple the number of those infected in 1994. In three countries that had maintained low rates of seroprevalence - China, Namibia and Viet Nam — the rate of infection among children quadrupled between 1994 and 1997.
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