YourHealth, AsiaOne
SINGAPORE - In the first 10 months of this year, another 378 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections were reported among Singapore residents.
In a statement released today, the Ministry of Health said that by extrapolation, it can be expected that the total number of notified HIV cases in 2013 will be similar to that of the 469 cases reported in 2012.
Of the 198 Singapore residents detected with HIV infection in the first six months of 2013, 95 per cent are males. Sexual transmission remained the main mode of HIV transmission as 97 per cent of the 198 cases acquired the infection through the sexual route.
Heterosexual transmission accounted for 43 per cent of these cases while 44 per cent were from homosexual transmission. Ten per cent were from bisexual transmission.
Almost half of the new cases reported in the first half of 2013 were aged 30 to 49 years.
Two in five newly reported cases already had late-stage HIV infection when they were diagnosed. This was lower than the proportion of 50 per cent in previous years.
Slightly over 40 per cent of the newly reported cases from January to June 2013 had their HIV detected when HIV testing was performed in the course of medical care provision. Another 30 per cent were detected during routine programmatic HIV screening while 20 per cent were detected as a result of voluntary HIV screening.
The rest were detected through other types of screening.
When differentiated by sexual transmission, a higher proportion of homosexuals (33 per cent) had their HIV infection detected via voluntary screening compared to heterosexuals (8 per cent).
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