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Bangkok Post - May 14, 1999
Ampa Santimetaneedol
The study unveiled at a meeting of the national Aids prevention committee on Wednesday showed an increase in reported Aids cases between 1984 to February 1999.
Figures revealed there were 109,900 Aids patients among 950,000 HIV-infected people. Of these 30,004 died.
The ratio of infection among men and women is 4:1. About 28 per cent of all Aids patients were aged 25-29 years; 23.5 percent were aged 30-34 years, and 14.2 percent 35-39 years.
Tuberculosis was the main disease infecting Aids patients (26 percent), followed by pneumonia (18.6 percent) and two fungi-related diseases (17.4 and 5.8 percent).
In recent years, the HIV infection rate among 21-year-old conscripts fell to two per cent from four percent but the overall infection rate nationwide remains at two percent.
The HIV infection rate among pregnant women did not fall as much as expected because the rate among men remained high, indicating that campaigns to encourage safe sex and blood tests for couples had fallen short of the mark.
The figures show that unsafe heterosexual sex and drug abuse-rather than prostitution-now account for more cases of infection, the report said.
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