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455 HIV facts recorded in Azerbaijan in 2009

01 February 2010 10:45 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Kamala Guliyeva â€“ APA. The Republic AIDS Prevention Center publicized the HIV/AIDS statistics of last year in Azerbaijan. Health Ministryâ€™s press service told APA that the rate of HIV infection is low in Azerbaijan, it is mainly spread among the injecting drug users.
62.2 percent of the HIV infection in Azerbaijan in 2009, 62.6 percent of all infection cases in 1987-01.01.2010 were caused by injection drug use.

455 HIV facts were recorded in Azerbaijan in 2009. 437 of them (96 percent) are Azerbaijanis, 18 (4 percent) foreigners. 362 (82.8 percent) out of 437 infected Azerbaijanis are men, 75 (17.2 percent) women. 99 Azerbaijanis passed to AIDS phase during this period, the number of those died from AIDS was 42. The Republic AIDS Prevention Center has registered 2264 HIV-infected people in the country since 1987, when first case was identified, until now. 2174 of them (96 percent) are Azerbaijanis, 90 (4 percent) foreigners, 1819 (83.7 percent) of HIV-infected Azerbaijanis are men, 355 (16.3 percent) women. 447 Azerbaijanis are on AIDS phase, 281 died from AIDS.

From 1992, when HIV infection was first recorded in Azerbaijani citizen, till 2009, 637 (29.3 percent) out of 2174 HIV-infected people were registered in Baku and Absheron region, 1497 (68.9 percent) in other 53 administrative areas, the whereabouts of 40 (1.8 percent) have not been determined.
1395 (64.2 percent) out of 2174 Azerbaijanis were infected via injection narcotic use, 509 (23.4 percent) heterosexual relations, 16 (0.7 percent) homosexual relations, in 21 cases (1 percent) transmitted from mother to child, the way of infection of 40 (1.8 percent) is not known.
HIV facts were recorded in 799 families in Azerbaijan from 1992 till 2009. In 19 families father, mother and child, in 1 family mother and child, 171 families husband and wife, 557 families only men, 51 families only women were infected.

330 people are receiving free anti-retrovirus (ARV) treatment at the AIDS Prevention Center within the program supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. 133 of them started treatment in 2009.