{"id":602998,"date":"2026-09-17T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602998\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:42:19","slug":"japan-records-fewer-new-hiv-carriers-and-aids-patients-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602998\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan records fewer new HIV carriers and AIDS patients in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan confirmed 890 new HIV carriers and AIDS patients in 2025, a drop of\u00a0104 from the previous year and the second-lowest level in the past 20 years, the health ministry said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of new HIV carriers fell by 38 to 624, the lowest in 20 years, while that of AIDS patients dropped by 66 to 266.<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex sexual contact was the most common route of infection, accounting for 404 among HIV carriers and 139 among AIDS patients.<\/p>\n<p>By age group, people in their 20s made up the largest number of HIV carriers, with 219, followed by those in their 30s, with 216.<\/p>\n<p>Among AIDS patients, those in their 50s or older accounted for the most cases, with 86, followed by those in their 30s, with 73.<\/p>\n<p>The number of HIV antibody tests fell to 107,083. The number of related consultation cases came to 73,359, falling for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan confirmed 890 new HIV carriers and AIDS patients in 2025, a drop of\u00a0104 from the previous year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,43231,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-602998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-mhlw","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}