“The first person infected with HIV in Azerbaijan was identified in 1987. In total, from 1987 to the end of the third quarter of 2025, 11,260 Azerbaijani citizens living with HIV are officially registered at the Republican AIDS Control Center,” said the director of the Republican AIDS Control Center of the Ministry of Health, Famil Mammadov, APA reports.
He stated that 70% of those infected with this disease are men, and 30% are women.
“It is the result of various targeted anti-epidemic and preventive measures implemented and realized among risk groups with a high susceptibility to HIV infection, as well as the general population, Azerbaijan is among the countries with the lowest HIV prevalence indicators in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region,” he said.
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