YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS: From 1988 to December 1, 2004, 304 HIV carriers were registered in the Republic of Armenia, 288 of them are citizens of the Republic of Armenia. The trend towards increasing the number of HIV infection cases has been observed in the country.
The number of HIV infection cases registered here in the last 4 years in the Republic of Armenia constitutes 50% of all the cases registered in the previous years. It is worth mentioning that already 53 cases of HIV infection have been registered this year, which exceeds the number of HIV infection cases registered in any of the previous years. Men constitute a prevailing part in the total number of HIV carriers 224 cases (77.8%), women represent 64 cases (22.2%). 288 reported cases include 4 cases of HIV infection among children (1.4%). Like the entire world, Armenia also has the tendency in the growth of number of infected women. In 2004, 13 cases of HIV-infected women were registered, which is unprecedented for the statistics of the country. The majority of the HIV carriers (77.4%) belongs to the age group of 20-39.
The main modes of transmission driving the epidemic in the Republic of Armenia are transmission through injecting drug usage (53.2%) and transmission through heterosexual practices (38.5%). Besides, cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission as well as HIV transmission through blood and homosexual contacts have also been registered in our country.
Sixty HIV-infected individuals are diagnosed with AIDS (whereof 7 are women and 1 is a child), whereof 30 diagnoses have been made during the last two years. From the beginning of the epidemic 45 cases of death (the cases include 7 women and 1 child), from HIV/AIDS have been registered. More than one third of these cases have been registered during the last two years. The number of cases of HIV infection (53), AIDS (17) and death from AIDS-related illnesses (11) registered in 2004 is the highest in comparison with the number of the cases registered in any of the previous years.
The maximum number of HIV carriers was reported in Yerevan: 143 cases, which constitute 49.7% of all the registered cases. Lori Marz is at second place – 23 cases, which constitute 8% of all the registered cases. However, HIV/AIDS situation assessment has shown that the estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Republic is about 2800-3000.
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