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HIV at 30-year high with more gay men infected
HIV infection is on the rise in Hong Kong, with a 30-year high of 513 new cases recorded last year, health authorities say. The cases marked a 17 per cent rise from 2011, Dr Wong Ka-hing, consultant to the Department of Health’s special preventive programme, said yesterday. Read more'Timebomb' of Britons unaware they have HIVIn
HIV infection is on the rise in Hong Kong, with a 30-year high of 513 new cases recorded last year, health authorities say.
The cases marked a 17 per cent rise from 2011, Dr Wong Ka-hing, consultant to the Department of Health’s special preventive programme, said yesterday.
In almost half the new cases, the virus was transmitted through homosexual contact between men.
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