Malaysian women urged to use condoms as HIV cases rise

publiziert: Dienstag, 16. Jan 2001 / 10:19 Uhr

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian women have been advised to increase the use of condoms, especially female condoms, during sex following a rise in female HIV cases, a news report said on Tuesday.

Health Ministry figures showed that HIV cases among women in Malaysia were on the rise, with 10.1 per cent of all HIV victims from January to August last year in the country being women. Women had previously comprised only about 4 per cent of HIV sufferers in the country from 1986 to 1999, said S. Elangovan, the ministry's AIDS chief in northern Perak state.

Elangovan advised women, especially wives, who felt insecure about inadequate safety precautions when their partners used male condoms during sex, to also opt for female condoms. "Although the female condom has been sold in the market for quite some time, very few women are aware of it," he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times daily.

Women were also put off from using female condoms because it was more expensive than male condoms. Malaysia's first AIDS case was detected in 1986. Since then, 36,283 people have been identified as HIV-positive, while 3,229 victims have died from AIDS.

(la/dpa)

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