Number of HIV-positive people rising in Czech Republic

The number of HIV-positive people has risen in the Czech Republic in the past months, Miroslav Hlavaty the director of "Dum svetla", a Prague centre for people with HIV/AIDS, said on Friday, adding that nine new HIV-positive patients were registered in March and data for April will probably show a further increase. He said that Czechs are well aware of the risk of HIV, but they underestimate it and do not protect themselves. The total number of HIV-positive people in the Czech Republic reached 949 in March. The most frequent way of transmission is unprotected sex, which is behind 83 percent of all cases.