The number of HIV positive people registered in Bulgaria since the beginning of 2007 is 59.
Thus the total number of the HIV positive in the country reached 748, Focus news agency reported.
Most of the infected, 46, are men. Their number is 3.5 times larger than those of the infected women.
Of the infected men, 14 were homosexual, leading Tonka Vurleva, co-ordinator of the Ministry of Health’s programme Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS to pronounce them a new at-risk group.
Another 13 of the HIV infected were drug addicts.
The age of the HIV infected people varied from 16 to 61. The youngest was infected after unprotected sex.
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