Dhaka, June 5 -- Cumilla has reported three deaths linked to HIV infection or AIDS in May, pushing the district's death toll to seven this year.

Officials have also recorded 385 people living with HIV under treatment in the district.

The deaths occurred on May 8, 13, and 25, a counsellor at Cumilla Medical College Hospital's HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC) and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Centre said on Thursday.

Md Arif Hasan, counsellor-cum-admin at the centre, said the victims were aged between 20 and 50, all residents of Cumilla.

A relative of one of the dead said the patient had worked at a factory in the Cumilla Export Processing Zone (EPZ).

The person was diagnosed as HIV-positive at a hospital in Dhaka and another family me...