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04 March 2008 [15:09] - Today.Az
Number of HIV-infected people recorded in Azerbaijan has made up 1,379 people since 1987 until January of 2008.
The due announcement was made by Haqiqat Gadirova, head of the Republican Anti-AIDS center, Day.Az reports.
She said 441 facts, connected with HIV-infected, were recorded in 2007, 214 in 2006, 206 in 2005, 102 in 2004.
"Of 1,379 HIV-infected people, 1320 are citizens of Azerbaijan. Most of them were infected when using injection drugs", Gadirova said.
It should be reminded that the number of HIV-infection carriers made up 2,500,000 people in 2007. 2,100,000 people died last year from AIDS.
/Day.Az/
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