Number of HİV infected persons registered in Azerbaijan reaches 3199

 Azerbaijani Health Ministry and Republic AIDS Center jointly held an event on December 1- World Aids Day. 

 

Head of  the center Haqiqat Orujova said that within 11 months the center registered  new 476 HIV infected persons. 465 of them (97,7%) are Azerbaijani citizens, the rest  (2,3 %) are foreigners.   

 

Total number of HIV infected persons registered by the center by December 1, 2011 is 3199. Of these, 3086 ( 96,5%) are Azerbaijani citizens, 113 persons ( 3,5 %) are foreigners.  

 

2525 (81,8%) out of 3086 Azerbaijani citizens are men, 56 (18, 2%) women. 

 

According to  Gadirova, 1940 ( 62.9%) of patients with AIDS in Azerbaijan are drug addicted; 283 (9.2%) of patients have been  infected  for unknown reasons; 40 (1.3%) are infected from their mothers; 1( 0.03%) from  donors; 29 ( 0.9%) as a result of homosexual encounters; and  793 ( 25.7%) from heterosexual sex. 

 

The virus is spread among high-risk groups of infected drug users  

 

There are now 34 million people living with HIV. 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus, including an estimated 390,000 children. Despite a significant decline in the estimated number of AIDS-related deaths over the last five years, there were still an estimated 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths in 2010.