HIV in Australia
At June 30, 1993, there had been:
17,475 diagnoses of HIV
of whom
4258 had developed AIDS
of whom
2786 had died.
Between April 1 and June 30, 1993:
253 people were newly diagnosed with HIV
of whom
42 were
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