The majority of people newly diagnosed with HIV in the first six months of this year were aged between 20 and 40, proving that it is still a young person's disease.
The figures released to mark World Aids Day today show that 168 people were diagnosed with the disease here in the first half of 2010, bringing to 5,805 the numbers living with HIV or AIDS in Ireland.
More than six in 10 new cases were aged between 20 and 40. Fifty per cent of the 168 people diagnosed -- the majority of whom were men -- were born in Ireland.
Six were aged 10--19 years, 18 were in their 50s and three were over the age of 60.
Source: Eilish O'Regan, The Irish Independent, 01/12/2010
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