Republic of Korea Global AIDS Response Progress Report 2012

The Republic of Korea (ROK) has an area of 99 k m 2 with a population o f 49 million (as of 2011). The number of medical facilities is 81,681 in 2010 and the number of medical manpower is 870 persons per 100,000 populations.

For HIV/AIDS, the first HIV in fected cases detected and reported in 1985 and then the number of reported HIV infection s steadily increased afterward to date. To cope wi th this newly emerging disease burden, the ROK established the advisory committee on HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs and enacted Korea HIV/AIDS Prevention Act in 1987.