The Center for AIDS of the Health Ministry, under the European Week of HIV Testing, is conducting a survey of the population in Baku, Gazakh, Lankaran and Salyan.
The European Week has been held throughout Europe since 21-28 November. The initiative belongs to the organization HIV in Europe, which unites dozens of organizations to combat HIV.
A number of higher education institutions and commercial facilities were selected for testing. Mobile unit testing and counseling for HIV is organized around the checkpoint Red Bridge and the shopping centers in Gazakh and Lankaran.
As part of the week social videos on HIV are demonstrated at bus stops in Baku.
Booklets and brochures about HIV will be distributed on the passenger trains from Baku to Russia and Ukraine.
In addition, for the first time testing is applied not to blood, but to saliva, allowing identification of the infection in 15-20 minutes.
It is expected to test about 15 thousand people in Azerbaijan during the week. The information outreach of the action will be 2-3 million people.
The week of testing first took place in 2013, and then the AIDS Center held a series of testing actions.
According to estimates of UN AIDS, WHO and other international organizations, 2.3 million people with HIV live in Europe, and at least one in three does not know it.
Immunodeficiency virus may not show for 5-8 years, which is why half of the infected people find out about it later.
Experts believe that the best method of early diagnosis of HIV is a rapid testing.
In Azerbaijan, by the end of 2013 the number of HIV infected people was 514. In total, in the country from 1987 until the end of 2013 were officially registered 4,298 HIV infected people. Of these, 4,149 people (96.5%) were the citizens of Azerbaijan, and 149 people (3.5%) were foreigners.
3,353 HIV infected patients (78%) are men and 945 (22%) are women. 2,044 (56.9%) out of 4,298 people living with HIV were infected through injection, and 1,777 of them are in the dispensary. -0-
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