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While still a low prevalence country for overall HIV rates, a small pocket of IDUs (Injecting Drug Users) under second generation surveillance, has shown an HIV prevalence increase from 1.4% to 4% to 8.9% (in one locality) in the past three years." The prevalence rate is what health experts consider a concentrated epidemic in a particular social section.It also means there is too high a risk of the epidemic fanning out for the society to remain complacent about

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