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172 AIDS-infected people in Azerbaijan’s Lankaran Region

172 AIDS-infected people in Azerbaijan’s Lankaran Region
# 04 July 2009 08:11 (UTC +04:00)
He said his laboratory identified 10 HIV-carriers over the past six months and the number of AIDS-infected people in Lankaran rose to 172.

There are totally 308 AIDS-infected people in the southern region of Azerbaijan now and 57 of them are in Masalli, 54 – in Astara, 19 – in Jalilabad, three – in Lerik and Yardimli.

According to the laboratory chief, first AIDS-infection was identified in the region in 2000. 24 people died from AIDS over the past nine years. “AIDS spreads mostly among the migrants. Therefore the citizens leaving the country for more than six months must be checked up in the HIV/AIDS laboratory”.
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