MORE people, especially women and singles, are going for voluntary anonymous HIV screening at the two GP clinics here offering it.
The number of such patients has doubled from 678 last year to 1,723 this year, according to a second survey carried out by Rockeby between last July and June this year.
The two anonymous screening centres are Enteh Clinic at Geylang and Cambridge Clinic at Kreta Ayer.
A significantly higher number of women are going for the HIV screening - from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, as well as first-timers - from 65 per cent to 74 per cent.
Last year, 422 people in Singapore tested positive for HIV, the highest since 1985, bringing the number of HIV carriers here to 3,482.
