South Kazakhstan: Ninth mother diagnosed with HIV

A Kazakh woman has become the ninth mother to become infected with the virus that causes Aids amid an outbreak among children in southern Kazakhstan blamed on doctors’ negligence, a news agency reported today.

The woman from the southern city of Shymkent tested positive for HIV last week, several months after her infant child was infected in a local hospital, Natalya Babina, the chief doctor of the regional Aids centre, told the Kazakhstan Today agency.