Registered HIV infection rate jumps by over 200 in eight months

The number of registered cases of HIV infection in the Czech Republic at the end of June was 2,783, according to Miroslav Hlavatý of the organisation Red Ribbons, who cited data from the National Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS. Some 484 of those patients had developed AIDS, he said. The number in November last year was 2,567. Mr. Hlavatý said the latest figures showed that the infection rate was not declining but was on the contrary still very strong and on the rise. Of those registered with HIV around six out of seven are men.

Author: Ian Willoughby