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Forty-three People Died from AIDS in Azerbaijan in 2016
In the first nine months of this year 374 HIV-infected patients were identified in Azerbaijan, including 232 men and 113 women. Of these, 365 people are citizens of Azerbaijan, and 9 are foreigners, according to the Ministry of Health.
In 19% of the cases HIV infection occurred as a result of injecting drugs.
In the period under review 118 people moved from HIV to AIDS. There were 43 recorded deaths from AIDS.
Since 1988, the Anti-AIDS Center of the Ministry of Health has recorded 6,003 people, including 5,803 (97%) citizens of Azerbaijan and 200 (3%) foreigners.
At present, 5,025 people live with HIV in Azerbaijan. Over the years, 788 people died from the accompanying diseases.
The most common cases of infection are through sharing injection needles among drug users - 48.8%, and through unprotected sexual intercourse - 40.1%.
New rules of compulsory medical examination of people entering into marriage also facilitate the identification of HIV-infected.
In particular, in the first nine months of this year, doctors tested 114,660 people and 79 of them proved to be positive for HIV. -06D-
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