AIDS death toll exceeds 8600

Data in the Quarterly Surveillance Update published by the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control indicate that by October 1995 12 119 cases of AIDS had been reported in Canada, including 116 pediatric cases involving children younger than 15; there have been 8614 deaths. Health Canada has announced that a reorganization involving the division of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology has led to the creation of a new Bureau of HIV/AIDS and STD (sexually transmitted diseases). The director is Dr. Don Sutherland.

CMAJ January 1, 1996 (vol 154, no 1)