Is there a country out there that can escape HIV/AIDS statistics?
...the officially registered number of people with HIV/AIDS by the end of December last year rose to 429. Last year alone 66 news cases of HIV were registered. The bulk of HIV carriers-76 percent, are men between 20-29. Also nine children with HIV were registered. Most infection comes about through the intravenous injection of drugs (52 percent) and through heterosexual contacts (43 percent).Yikes! Armenia has to do something about this, whether a public ad campaign of the dangers, the promotion of contraceptives, or free testing for those who may not even be aware and inadvertently pass it on to others.
Since 1988 99 people, of whom 18 women and three children, have died of AIDS.
Other independent estimates put the overall number of HIV/AIDS carriers at about 3,000 people.
Source: ArmenPress
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