One in three infected with AIDS does not know about it, says new research

MANY patients in Ireland and Britain are not having their HIV infection diagnosed until the disease is at a late stage, new research has found.

This has sparked fears in Ireland that the disease may be spreading amongst the wider community at a faster rate.

Around 3,500 HIV infections have been reported in Ireland. It is reckoned, however, that one in three people already infected with the virus are unaware of their disease status.