Manager of 'al thagger' Dr.Nasser Al-Juhani opened today the celebration of World day to combat AIDS For 2012, Under the title (Union against AIDS for generations free of new infections , Free of stigma,discrimination and free of AIDS deaths) In cooperation with the Department of health education and learning. Dr.Nasser Al-Juhani mentioned that the number of new infections decreased from what it was ten years ago by 700,000 cases worldwide, and the number of deaths dropped by 600,000 death than it was in 2005. in the Kingdom 1195 new cases of HIV/AIDS were found by 2011 (459 Saudis 736 foreigners). The majority of infected men were the age of 15 to 50 years, 90% had the infection from sexual intercourse and other reasons such as drug abuse or transmission from infected mother to the fetus.