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United Press International - Monday, June 13, 2004
"Alarmed by an unabating increase in the numbers of full-blown AIDS patients and HIV carriers in the country, the ministry wants to encourage HIV patients to receive medical treatment in the early stages of the disease," the newspaper said. "It also aims to reduce the number of areas in which blood donor facilities are used as unofficial test carriers."
Japan reported 976 carriers of the HIV virus, an all-time high in 2003, the paper said. "A number of AIDS patients died because of delays in detecting the disease," it said.
Currently, Japanese public health centers already provide free and anonymous HIV infection checks, but the service is provided only once a week in sessions lasting about two hours, Yomiuri Shimbun said.
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