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Wed 12 Dec 2009Complacency danger on HIV
THE RATE at which people are diagnosed with HIV more than doubled in Europe between 2000 and 2008, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported yesterday. That long-term trend is also reflected in the continuing rise in infection rates in recent Irish experience – figures this week from Dublin’s St James’s Hospital record the highest number of new cases in a year on record, a 20 per cent increase in positive diagnoses.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has reported some 210 new cases in the first half of 2009, up from 193 in the previous six months. Some 5,453 people in the Republic are now living with HIV.
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