AIDS Leading Cause of Death, Government Says
From Times Wire Reports
AIDS is the leading cause of death in Thailand--not heart attacks or accidents as previously thought, health officials said.
AIDS and related complications accounted for 16% of all deaths in 1998, Dr. Chanpen Chuprapawan of the Health Ministry said after examining 20,000 deaths in six provinces.
AIDS “might have been the No. 1 killer for years, but we had been unaware because of a wrong system of recording data,” Chanpen said.
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