The Department of Health's Center for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday that 13 of the 92 men who were detained by the police in a raid on a party last Saturday were HIV-positive.
"One of them admitted to the police when he was detained that he is HIV-positive. However, after a urine test and a match-up with our HIV-positive name list, we discovered another 12 HIV-positive people among them," CDC Director-General Su Ih-jen (
Su said because of the discovery of the HIV cases, the other 79 men at the party will be tested for the virus again in six months.
"According to Article 1-18 of the HIV Prevention Law (
Early last Saturday, police officers from the Taipei City Police Department's Yuanshan Station raided an apartment-turned-nightclub on Nongan Street.
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Police said last Saturday that they detained the partygoers at the apartment for a urine test because they had discovered more than 100 ecstasy and ketamine pills.
Officers also discovered one room in the flat they said was used specifically for sex, adding they discovered used condoms and tissue paper in the room.
Police are still trying to figure out whether the 92 men had sex at the party, saying it is crucial to determining whether they will be indicted.
According to Article 15 of the HIV Prevention Law, a person will be indicted and sentenced up to seven years in jail if he has sex or shares injections with other people to intentionally spread HIV.
Police said it would be difficult to figure out whether the men had sex during the party.
"We just discovered lots of used condoms and tissue paper. However, we did not see anybody having sex at the scene. If they do not tell the truth, we will not be able to do anything," said Lin Kuo-ping (
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