Eleven dead of AIDS in past month

PHUKET TOWN: The government Health Office recorded 11 AIDS-related deaths in Phuket province during the month to April 20, and 30 new cases of full-blown AIDS. The new cases bring to 945 the number registered by the Phuket Provincial Health Department since it began keeping records of AIDS cases in January 1989. Of the 945 cases, 403 are, or were, Phuket residents. The latest eleven deaths bring to 316 the number of people in Phuket killed by AIDS in the same period.