HIV statistics for 2006

The Czech health authorities say they have registered 93 new cases of HIV in the course of last year, which is a slight increase on 2005. The overall number of HIV cases registered in the country since 1985 is 920. Of the total, 209 have developed full-blown AIDS symptoms and 123 have died of the disease. The most afflicted regions are Prague and the Karlovy Vary region in west Bohemia.