BBC News - Saturday, 1 December, 2001
She made the call at a special service at St Luke's Church in Cardiff on Saturday as thousands remembered those who have died from the disease.
Around 100 teenagers from Wales also gathered to quiz sexual health experts from Mexico, Holland and Ghana at a workshop in the capital.
The day of action followed the publication of a major survey revealed Britons are more sexually promiscuous than ever.
The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles 2000 found that men and women have more sexual partners than they did a decade ago.
In Wales, it comes after leading genito-urinary medicine consultant Dr Olwen Williams referred to a 56% increase in sexually transmitted disease over the same period - 10% higher than in England.
She told Cardiff Breakfast Club in September that Wales has only had 600 cases of HIV disease in the last 10 years.
The figure had increased by between 50 and 60 in the last year, she said.
International virus
Elsewhere, however, the problem is more marked.
Around the world, 36m people carry the HIV virus or have the Aids disease and close to 15,000 new infections occur every day.
Last year in the UK, 3,550 cases of HIV were diagnosed - the highest ever annual total of new diagnoses.
But 95% of all cases are in the world's poorest countries.
Dr Williams, who is based at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, had told the breakfast club one in four in South Africa carried the disease.
The United Nations has vowed to halve the number of new infections by 2010.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus can attack the immune system, rendering it vulnerable to Aids diseases.
The virus lives in blood, sperm and vaginal fluid and can be transmitted through unprotected sex or sharing of a needle with an infected person.
There is no vaccine and no cure, but a number of new drugs can help delay the onset of the disease and the damage done to the immune system.
Ms Hutt is expected to warn against complacency over the disease, which some feel has crept in since hard-hitting health awareness campaigns have disappeared.
She will also express solidarity with Aids patients around the country and will tell people at the event - organised by Cardiff Aids Helpline at the Howardian Centre - that more heterosexuals this year tested positive than homosexuals.
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