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Aids cases on rise in Arab world

  • Monday, November 26 - 2007 at 07:40

The number of AIDS related deaths has increased almost six-fold since 1990 in the Arab region, where one new HIV infection occurs every 10 minutes, according to a United Nations Development Programme report. Over half a million people in the region live with AIDS and 68,000 people are newly infected with HIV. The study says the Arab region will face infection rates of 4% by 2015, reported Gulf News.

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