Number of new HIV cases in Saudi Arabia declined by 9% in 2010 from previous year, Health Ministry official says

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"The number of new HIV cases in Saudi Arabia declined by 9 percent to 1,121 in 2010 from the previous year, the official Saudi Press Agency said, citing a Health Ministry official," Bloomberg reports (Carey, 11/29). "The official Saudi Press Agency quotes deputy health minister Ziyad bin Ahmed as telling an HIV/AIDS conference Monday that the new cases include 439 Saudi citizens and 682 non-Saudis," the Associated Press writes, adding, "Bin Ahmed said that since 1984, 16,334 people have tested positive for HIV" (11/28).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Tags: AIDS, Health Care, HIV, HIV/AIDS, HIV-1, Research

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