AIDS kills 48 in Azerbaijan last year

According to the press service for the Ministry of Health, of them 437 are Azerbaijanis and four are foreigners.

a 382 (87.4%) out of 437 recorded patients are men and 55 (12.6%) are women. The majority of the AIDS-infected patients – 271 (62%) acquired the infection via drug injection.

48 people died of AIDS in Azerbaijan last year.

1379 facts on HIV-infection were recorded in the Center of AIDS in 1987-2007. Of them, 59 are foreigners and 1320 are Azerbaijanis.

1117 (84.6%) of HIV-infected Azeri patients are men and 203 are women.

On the whole, in those years, 195 died of AIDS and 294 of HIV-infected patients have progressed to the AIDS stage.

Out of 1320 Azerbaijanis 790 (59.8%) were infected through drug injection, 281 (21.3%) as a result of heterosexual contact, 12 (0.9%) homosexual contacts, 11 (0.8%) cases are mother-to-child transmission, 1 (0.1%) was infected parenterally and 1 (0.1%) via blood transfusion.

It was impossible to define the way of infection of 224 (17%) people.

Out of 1320 HIV patients 209 (15.8%) were infected abroad.

Facts on HIV were recorded in 416 families in 1992-2007. In 11 families the infected were both parents and a child, in 99 families a husband and a wife, in 285 families only men and in 21 families only woman.

/APA/