Fiji: UNGASS 2006 Country Progress Report (January 2003-December 2005)

Fiji recorded their first four cases of HIV in 1989, three being males and one being female. In the ten-year period between 1989 and 1998, Fiji had a total of 46 people diagnosed with HIV infections, an average of approximately 5 persons per year. In the five-year period between 1999 and 2003, a total of 96 new cases have been diagnosed with HIV, with the two highest figures being 26 in 2002 and 31 in 2003.