Germany reports 4% rise in HIV/AIDS infections in 2007
Pastor Dale Morgan
Germany reports 4% rise in HIV/AIDS infections in 2007*
2008-05-06 22:40:08
BERLIN, May 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed new HIV/AIDS
infections in Germany rose 4 percent in 2007, a government institute
said Tuesday.
The Robert Koch Institute, the German government's central disease
control center, reported 2,752 new HIV infections in 2007,compared with
2,643 cases the previous year.
Homosexual males remained the hardest hit group, accounting for
about 65 percent of new infections, a 12-percent increase over the
previous year.
New infections among heterosexuals also grew 7.5 percent, the
institute said.
New HIV infections among women dropped sharply by 12 percent
compared with 2006, while new infections among men rose 8 percent.
The institute said large cities like Cologne, Duesseldorf, Berlin,
Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg had the highest HIV risk.