Friday, August 10, 2007

New HIV cases identified in Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, August 10 (Itar-Tass) - New HIV cases have been identified in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan.

The Health Ministry’s specialists said the new cases had been detected during examination of people who were in contact with infected infants.

They infants were treated in the pediatric department of the Osh infection disease clinic in this year’s spring.

Available information suggests that the nine infants, a mother and a doctor were infected because of medics’ violating rules of using catheters.
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