ROMANIAN PRESIDENT EMIL CONSTANTINESCU WITH HIV-POSITIVE CHILDRENS, 1997-11-29 (photo)

Romanian President Emil Constantinescu applauds during a show in his honour during the inauguration on November 29 of a centre for testing children infected with the AIDS virus at Singureni village, south of Bucharest. The AIDS centre, build with money from an Italian charity, highlights the drama of Romanian children, the country having more than half of juvenile AIDS cases in Europe. Of some 3,000 cases of AIDS registered in Romania, children make-up more than 90 percent -- most of them were infected through unscreened blood transfusions and lack of disposable syringes in the communist era. ROMANIA AIDS