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HK reports 104 HIV cases in Q1
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-26 16:41

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong reported 104 cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections in the first quarter of 2009, the Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong government announced Tuesday.

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Of the 104 HIV cases, which comprised 80 males and 24 females, 25 acquired the infection via heterosexual contact, 40 via homosexual or bisexual contact, two through drug injection, and two through mother-to-child transmission.

The routes of transmission of the remaining 35 cases were undetermined due to inadequate information, according to the center's consultant Dr Wong Ka-hing.

Seventeen new cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were reported in the first quarter, taking the number of confirmed AIDS cases reported in the city to 1,047 since 1985. Forty-one percent of the new AIDS cases were related to heterosexual contact.

In this quarter, the most common AIDS-defining illness was pneumocystis pneumonia, a kind of chest infection.