MADRID, March 18 (AFP) - Spain registered 2,034 new cases of AIDS in 2004, the rate of growth in new cases falling 10 percent on 2003, the health ministry said Friday.
Three-quarters of the new cases are men with the majority of contaminations involving intravenous drug users.
The total number of AIDS sufferers in Spain stood at 69,799, the ministry said, while adding that between 1981 and 2001 42,149 people had died from the disease.
Lourdes Chamorro, the official leading a national anti-AIDS strategy, said the fall in the number of new cases was down to the effectiveness of new anti-retroviral treatments.
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