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ENEVA, Nov. 24 — An estimated 5.3 million people, including 600,000 children under age 15, became infected with the virus that causes AIDS this year, the World Health Organization said today. For the first time the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa stabilized, but that was offset by increases in morbidity (the rate the disease was contracted) and deaths in the region. An estimated 3.8 million people in the region were newly infected this year with H.I.V., the …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…million people with H.I.V. Some countries are experiencing increased heterosexual transmission, but in others, infections "remain concentrated mainly in men who have unprotected sex with other men and injecting drug users," the agency said. Transmission in sub-Saharan Africa remains primarily by heterosexual contact, and 25.3 million of the total number of living victims live there. The Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe have reported the highest number of cumulative cases on the continent.