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Dr. Sanaa bin Mustafa Flimban, head
of Saudi Arabia's AIDS charity foundation, said the country recorded 1,233 new
AIDS cases in 2012. Okaz, the state-owned newspaper, published this information
on April 9.
Flimban stated that 96 percent of
Saudi Arabian AIDS patients contracted AIDS through sexual intercourse. She
declared that the kingdom reported a total of 850 infected Saudi females, all
of whom contracted the disease from their spouses. Eighty percent of these
females discovered they had AIDS only after pregnancy.
For years, Saudi Arabia has not
released AIDS statistics, as sex and AIDS prevention discussion is forbidden in
the conservative Muslim nation. The United Nations Development Programme said
that since 1986, Saudi Arabia has reported nearly 10,000 cases of AIDS or HIV.
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