Record number of new HIV cases recorded in Czech Republic

Doctors in the Czech Republic registered 242 new cases of HIV infection between the start of the year and the end of November, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing data of the National Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS. It is already seven more than for the whole of 2013, which saw the highest number, 235, of new HIV cases. Since the beginning of the year, 27 people developed AIDS and seven patients died as a result of the illness.

Author: Ruth Fraňková