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HIV/AIDS Epidemiology

Reduction in new HIV infections in Southeast Spain

"We analyze the characteristics of patients diagnosed with HIV infection in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era in the southeast of Spain. Data were collected on 470 HIV patients diagnosed between January 1997 and December 2002," scientists writing in the International Journal of STD & AIDS report.

"The number of cases fell over recent years and HIV transmission was sexual in 70.5%. The mean CD4 lymphocyte count was 302.1x10⁶/L, and the mean viral load 4.70 log₁₀ ," said J. Santos and colleagues.

"Diagnosis of HIV coincided with an...

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