Council: HIV cases decline rates static


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia had been able to halve the annual number of new HIV cases thanks to intervention programmes but rates of decline have stagnated, said Malaysian AIDS Council honorary secretary Hisham Hussein.

He pointed out that there were 6,900 new cases in 2002 compared with 3,400 currently.

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