AIDS kills 12 in Azerbaijan in 2008

Of them 88 are citizens of Azerbaijan and 1 is a foreigner.

Of 88 citizens of Azerbaijan 68 (77.3%) are men, 20 (22.7%) are women. AIDS killed 12 people in the first quarter of 2008 in Azerbaijan.

Thus, through the reported period 26 citizens of Azerbaijan (29.5%) were infected via drugs, 12 (13.6%) due to heterosexual relations and 1 (1.1%) mother-to-child infection.

Of 88 citizens 25 were infected in Baku in Absheron, 60 in other regions of the country and 3 from unknown sources.

Of this number 16 (18.2%) were infected abroad.

Cases of HIV-infection were recorded in 34 families in the first quarter of this year. A mother, a father and a child were infected in one family, a husband and a wife in 4 families, women in 4 families and men in 25 families.

/Day.Az/