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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- New known cases of HIV in the Czech Republic rose from 148 in 2008 to 157 last year, federal health officials in Prague said.
In all, the Czech Republic has 1,344 known cases of HIV, most of them in Prague, Central Bohemia and South Moravia, said Dzamila Stehlikova of the National HIV/AIDS Program.
Ninety percent of the cases registered in 2009 involved people infected through sexual intercourse, with more than 70 percent of the cases involving sex between men. Just 2.3 percent of the cases involved intravenous drug use, the Czech news agency CTK reported Tuesday.
"It is undoubtedly the widespread risky sexual behavior that is behind the continuing increase in the spread of infection in the Czech Republic," Stehlikova said.
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