Carefree Japan heading for HIV explosion
Mainichi Shimbun / June 3, 2003
...While there is a tendency for the rate of infections to decrease in developed countries, data from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says that in Japan the number of yearly infections has gone against this trend and continued to rise. Shinichi Oka, a research and development worker at the International Medical Center of Japan agrees that..." there is a possibility that the number of cases in Japan will soon increase explosively," he said.