PETALING JAYA: Gay sex accounted for more than half of the HIV transmission cases in Malaysia last year, showing a clear shift in the pattern of infection after almost three decades which mostly recorded cases of drug users sharing needles.
In a Facebook posting yesterday, the Health Ministry said in 1990, the majority of HIV transmissions happened due to intravenous drug use (IVDU) or 61% of cases that year.
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