Hong Kong men infected through homosexual contact AIDS cases increase

According to the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao reported that the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection announced that in the second quarter of this year, 90 new people are infected with HIV, of which nearly eight men, were cause for concern is that men infected through homosexual contact AIDS cases is increasing. According to the Center for Health Protection of Hong Kong show that new cases of infection, that is, nearly 80 per cent of males and 71, a total of 48 of them through heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual contact and the rest due to reasons such as injecting drug users infected . The sexual contact is still the most important route of transmission of HIV. The MSM community in HIV cases are on an upward trend in the 90 new HIV cases, of which 80 per cent of male patients with sexually transmitted mainly through which one third are infected through homosexual contact . Hong Kong Center for Health Protection Consultant Wong Ka-hing This does worry that the MSM HIV infection cases increased, because of their HIV infection cases in the community is relatively high, coupled with the increase in unsafe sexual behavior and infection And the risk of AIDS awareness efforts, he called for the former sex should be taken proper preventive measures. In addition to HIV infection through sexual intercourse, some patients can not know exactly how the disease, it is estimated that in recent years with the popular on-line friends and taking soft drugs after sexual contact, and other related trends. According to Chinese University of Hong Kong survey shows that men and male HIV infections in 2003, when less than one per cent, in 2004 at about 1.8 percent, by 2005 it rose to 2.5 percent . Reflect the number of men infected through homosexual contact AIDS cases rise at an alarming rate, worthy of public attention.