People infected by heterosexual contact represented 27 percent and those through injecting drugs was 22 percent.

If there is no heterosexual contact, it is not passed along.

Of that figure, 5,983 males, about 2.5 percent of all cases, contracted the disease through heterosexual contact.

That leaves about 13 or 14 percent - 99,483 cases - listed officially as "heterosexual contact."

In contrast the number of new cases attributed to heterosexual contacts rose 27 percent, to 1,562.

Here, as in other African countries, the virus is transmitted mainly through heterosexual contact among young adults.

A slightly smaller number, 42.3 percent, were attributed to heterosexual contact with an intravenous drug user who was infected.

Across the country, 4 percent of the infected heterosexual population are people with no risk factors other than heterosexual contacts.

Recent data show that more than 70 percent of the new cases attributed to heterosexual contact involve people who say they were infected abroad.

Johnson refused to name the player and reiterated that he had contracted the virus through heterosexual contact.