THE number of people diagnosed here this year with the Aids-causing virus looks set to hit an all-time high.
Part of the reason for this is the record numbers getting tested.
This follows last year's figures where 423 residents here were diagnosed with HIV, the highest number in a year since the disease first surfaced here in 1985.
The latest figures are for the first 10 months of this year, 7 per cent more than the 356 cases uncovered over the same period last year.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids has put the true prevalence of the disease here at two to four times higher from undiagnosed cases and cases diagnosed abroad but so far unrecorded here.
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