HIV/AIDS infection situation in Southern provinces from 1990 to 2000
- Author:
Sac Kim Pham
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
hiv
- MeSH:
HIV;
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2000;10(4):45-48
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In the year of 2000, there were 4577 cases of positive HIV, 1022 cases of AIDS in which 579 died. In positive HIV cases men were higher than women were but the women with HIV/AIDS infection were increasingly. The people with age of from 20 to 29 accounted for 51-53%. The worrying trend was that: teenager under 19 with HIV infection was increasingly from 2.8% in 1993 to 12.45% in the year of 2000. The positive HIV incidence was high within the addicts in Lam Dong, Binh Phuoc, Ho Chi Minh city and Da Nang, and in prostitutes in Bac Lieu, Kien Giang, Binh Phuoc, Ca Mau, Binh Dinh and Can Tho
