KUALA LUMPUR - MORE Malaysians were infected with HIV/Aids via
sexual transmission last year, making up 48.5 per cent of the new
cases of infections.
This is the first time that unguarded sexual activity has caused
more new HIV/Aids infection cases than drug use through
injections.
Statistics from the Malaysian Aids Council also revealed that
homosexual and bisexual transmission cases have shot up last year,
from 162 cases to 201.
New cases of HIV/Aids infections last year numbered at
3,090.
'The trend has changed. HIV/Aids in Malaysia did not spread
mostly by needle injections as most of us were made to believe,' PT
Foundation chairman Hisham Hussein said at a multi-faith memorial
service in conjunction with International AIDS Memorial Day 2011 on
Saturday.
The service, organised by the foundation, was held in an
alleyway in an enclave notorious as a hangout for sexual workers
and tranvestites.
-- THE STAR/ANN