A total of 2015 people in Bulgaria have HIV or AIDS, with 195 new cases reported since the beginning of 2014, the Health Ministry said on December 1, World AIDS Day.
The head of the ministry’s programme for the prevention and control of HIV-AIDS, Dr Tonka Vurleva, said that of the new cases in 2014, 82 per cent were men and 18 per cent women.
Most of the new infections, 42 per cent, were in the 30 to 39 age group. Ninety-four cases were in Sofia city and region, 22 in Plovdiv, 11 in Varna, nine in Pazardzhik, eight in Bourgas and seven in Haskovo.
The proportion of new infections among homosexual men had increased, to 42 per cent.
Among pregnant wo
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