Gunash Jafarova, the Deputy Director of the Republican AIDS Center, revealed the number of people infected with HIV in the last 36 years in Azerbaijan, Report informs.
According to her, despite the measures taken to combat HIV/AIDS globally, the spread of the infection is still ongoing: “Compared to the countries of the region, Azerbaijan is the country with the lowest prevalence of HIV infection. Thanks to the work carried out by the Ministry of Health, targeted action among risk groups has allowed keeping the spread of HIV infection at a concentrated level.”
Jafarova emphasized that the infection in Azerbaijan mainly spread among high-risk groups: “In total, from 1987, when HIV infection was first detected in Azerbaijan, to the end of 2022, 8,563 people living with HIV are officially registered in the Republican AIDS Center. 69.5% of them are men, 30.5% are women."