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Thursday 5 January 2012

AIDS kills 2,608 Cambodians in 2011, down 11 pct

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia estimated that about 2, 608 people were killed by HIV/AIDS in 2011, a decrease of 11 percent from 2,943 people in a year earlier, Dr. Teng Kunthy, secretary general of National Aids Authority (NAA), said Thursday.

He said among the 2,608 deaths last year, some 2,484 were over 15 years old and 124 were children, whilst in 2010, among the 2, 943 deaths, 2,783 were over 15 years old and 160 were children.

He continued to say that the last year's new infection rate was also declined by 12 percent to 1,517 people including 191 children from 1,726 people including 256 children in a year earlier.

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