Events around the globe mark the World AIDS Day

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-12-01 16:29

A volunteer demonstrates how to use a condom at a beauty salon in Phnom Penh market on World Aids day December 1, 2006. Cambodia has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Asia, with 1.9 percent of the population, or approximately 123,000 people, infected, while the highest number of new HIV infections -about 40 percent- occur in married women in the impoverished country, according to the United Nations and government statistics.

A volunteer demonstrates how to use a condom at a beauty salon in Phnom Penh market on World AIDS Day December 1, 2006. Cambodia has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Asia, with 1.9 percent of the population, or approximately 123,000 people, infected, while the highest number of new HIV infections -about 40 percent- occur in married women in the impoverished country, according to the United Nations and government statistics. [Reuters]


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