City’s HIV rate six times country’s average: Study
JEFF HODSON, METRO CANADA
March 06, 2009 02:15
The HIV prevalence rate in Vancouver is six times the national average, according to leading HIV/AIDS researchers. That prevalence rate includes those living with AIDS.
The study released Thursday also estimated that one in four sex workers in Vancouver are infected with HIV.
However, Susan Davis, who has worked in the sex trade for the past 23 years and has proposed a legal brothel to welcome visitors during the 2010 Olympics, said the number is “absolutely untrue.”
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