Married Thais account for 40 pc of new HIV infections

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BANGKOK, Oct 11 (AFP): Married people accounted for more than 40 per cent of all new cases of HIV/AIDS in Thailand last year, the country's health ministry said Thursday, despite an overall decrease in infections.
About 7,000 married people reported that they had HIV/AIDS in 2006, from a total of 17,000 new cases, according to the latest survey by the ministry's disease control department.
Forty per cent of new infections in married couples were reported by wives who said they got the disease from their husbands, the survey said.