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AIDS reaches epedemic proportions among Vietnamese prostitutes
A Vietnamese government survey shows that more than half of registered prostitutes in Hanoi carry the AIDS virus following a huge surge of infection .
The labour and social affairs ministry survey shows that infection rates at the capital's Social Support Centre Number Two, a home for women with repeat convictions for solliciting, reached 55.4 percent in 2001 against 39.2 percent the previous year.
The infection rates for Hanoi were even higher than those for Ho Chi Minh City, normally regarded as the country's vice centre.
Across Vietnam's big cities infection rates among registered prostitutes saw an increase of 18.4 percent on 2000.
A nationwide study published by the labour and social affairs ministry in March last year found that infection among prostitutes had leapt from 2.8 percent in 1998 to 21.6 percent in 2000.
14/03/2002 14:06:30 | ABC Radio Australia News
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