BBC News - Thursday, 7 September, 2000
A new report has said health professionals in Wrexham are becoming increasingly concerned about the numbers contracting the virus.
Many are thought to have contracted the virus through sexual contact with current or former drug users.
Around 30 new cases of HIV were diagnosed across Wales last year.
But in the last six months 10 new cases of the virus have been diagnosed in the Wrexham and Glan Clwyd areas.
That is the same number as was diagnosed over the same timescale in the Bro Taf authority area, which covers Cardiff and the Rhondda Valley.
According to the experts most of these new sufferers have contracted the virus through heterosexual sex with current or former drug users.
In many cases they are unaware that their sexual partner is carrying the disease.
Dr Gwyn Roberts - the report's author and chairman of the local health group - said the current figures could represent just the tip of the iceberg.
Seven people are diagnosed as HIV positive in the UK every day and the medical community in Wrexham is bracing itself for more new cases.
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