21% of AIDS deaths are heterosexuals

21% of AIDS deaths are heterosexuals

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Heterosexuals are the second highest group
of people after intravenous drug users to die from AIDS-related
diseases in Malaysia, reports said yesterday.

Selangor and Federal Territory Family Planning Association
secretary C.R.S. Maniam said that of the 928 deaths registered
from 1985 to July this year, 530 or 57 percent were intravenous
drug users and 194 or 21 percent were heterosexuals.

Malaysia, which describes all proven drug users as addicts,
has an estimated 200,000 addicts in a population of 20 million
people.

He said only 20 people, comprising 2.2 percent of those who
died, were homosexuals or bisexuals, the Sunday Star newspaper
reported.