almotamar.net - Activities observing the World AIDS Day disclosed worrying indicators on rise in deaths of AIDS victims in Yemen. In three governorates only the victims have been 178 death cases out of 238 new AIDS infection cases the concerned authorizes managed to register in governorates of Hudeida, Ibb and Lahj amid hospitals keeping silent about the discovered cases and reservation of the patients families.

One day after the announcement by Dr Jamal Amer, coordinator of the national programme for combating AIDS of the death of 25 AIDS cases in the governorate of Lahj out of 39 patients during the year 2007, observing the World AIDS Day held in Hudeida Tuesday comes to disclose that the number of those infected with disease there amounted to 174 patients, most of them died due to not taking cure and secrecy about their conditions, according to Yemeni official news agency.

In Ibb governorate the coordinator of the national programme on fighting AIDS Dr Ashraf al-Mutawakil said on 4 of this month that 6 AIDS infected cases were discovered in previous months, among them three females. He indicated that some of the cases were discovered in private hospitals.

Dr al-Mutawakil told News Yemen website that 90% of patients infected with AIDS were caused by sexual relationship, adding that some private hospitals refuse to repot on discovered cases for fear of their hospitals reputation.

Last August the Director General of the National Programme for Fighting AIDS at the Ministry of Public Health and Population discloses the registration of 2075 cases of infection in Yemen in the period of 1978- December 2006.