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Nearly half of new HIV cases among young people

Staff from the Police General Hospital take part in a World Aids Day getting to zero campaign activity in 2019. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Nearly half of the 9,000-plus new HIV infections in Thailand each year are people aged between 15-24 years old, according to the Department of Disease Control.

Dr Suchada Jiamsiri, chief of the Division of Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Disease Control, said infections among this age group have been a trend for several years.

The highest rates used to be among sex workers and the group of men who have sex with other men…

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