KUALA LUMPUR: The rise in the number of women being infected with HIV is an indication that the disease has gone beyond affecting just drug users and sex workers.
“HIV infection among women had increased from 9.4% in 2000 to 19.1% in 2008,” Malaysian AIDS Foundation chairman Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman said yesterday.
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