Head of AIDS charities in Saudi Arabia said the country recorded 1,233 new cases of the disease last year.
Head of AIDS charities in Saudi Arabia said the country recorded 1,233 new cases of the disease last year.
In a paper published Tuesday in the government daily Okaz, Doctor Sanaa Mustafa bin Flimban said 96 percent of AIDS patients in Saudi Arabia stricken with AIDS through sexual intercourse.
He added that 850 Saudi women infected in the kingdom ', all transmitted by their husbands. Eighty percent of patients know they have AIDS only after pregnant.
Since a long time, Saudi Arabia was never released statistics on AIDS. Although it has been many changes in the past decade, talk about sex and AIDS prevention is still taboo in the conservative Islamic state.
UNDP is the UN agency said nearly 10,000 people with AIDS or HIV - the virus that causes - have been reported in Saudi Arabia since 1986.
In a paper published Tuesday in the government daily Okaz, Doctor Sanaa Mustafa bin Flimban said 96 percent of AIDS patients in Saudi Arabia stricken with AIDS through sexual intercourse.
He added that 850 Saudi women infected in the kingdom ', all transmitted by their husbands. Eighty percent of patients know they have AIDS only after pregnant.
Since a long time, Saudi Arabia was never released statistics on AIDS. Although it has been many changes in the past decade, talk about sex and AIDS prevention is still taboo in the conservative Islamic state.
UNDP is the UN agency said nearly 10,000 people with AIDS or HIV - the virus that causes - have been reported in Saudi Arabia since 1986.
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