52 HIV POSITIVE PERSONS, INCLUDING 8 WOMEN AND 3 CHILDREN CURRENTLY RECEIVE ANTI-RETROVIRAL TREATMENT IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Apr 18 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 18, NOYAN TAPAN. 52 HIV positive persons, including
8 women and 3 children, currently receive anti-retroviral treatment
in Armenia.
Director of the Republican Center of AIDS Prevention Samvel Grigorian
stated this on April 18 during the three-day consultation on the
subject "Improvement of Accessibility of Medical and Social-Medical
Aid and High-Quality Services for AIDS/HIV Patients". According to him,
in the period of 1988 to March 31, 2007, 448 HIV positive citizens of
Armenia have been registered. He said that in Armenia the main ways
of HIV transmission are intravenous injections of narcotic drugs
(51.3%) and heterosexual contacts (41.3%). Besides, cases of HIV
transmission from mother to child, through homosexual contacts and
blood transfusion have been registered in Armenia.
In S. Grigorian’s words, 164 HIV positive persons (including 31
women and 5 children) have been diagnosed as having AIDS, including
46 patients in 2006 and 13 ones in 2007. Until now 104 people (19
women and 3 children) have died of AIDS/HIV in Armenia.