HIV/AIDS kill more than 1,300 Cambodians in 2018, down 48 pct in 9 years

HIV/AIDS had killed more than 1,300 people in Cambodia in 2018, down 48 percent from over 2,500 deaths in 2010, Ieng Mouly, chairman of the National AIDS Authority, said Sunday.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

Speaking at an event marking the World AIDS Day, Mouly said some 880 people became newly infected with HIV last year, down 62 percent from 2,300 nine years ago.

In full: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/01/c_138597181.htm

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