NEWS BRIEFS
7/02/09
Print this article
Email this article
The number of HIV positive people in Uzbekistan has more than quadrupled since 2007.
In 2007 there were 3,169 registered cases of the virus, but as of January 1, 2009 there were 12,816, Nurmat Atabekov, the director of the National AIDS Center, said on July 2.
The virus was transmitted through dirty needles in at least 49 percent of the cases; just under a quarter of the infection rate could be attributed to sexual activity, CA-News.org quoted him as saying.
Some 76 percent of those infected are males aged between 20 and 49.
A total of 1,409 cases involve children, 512 of which were mother-to-child infections, the report added.
In November 2008, the Uzbek Ministry of Health moved swiftly to deny international media reports that 43 children in Namangan contracted HIV at a regional hospital.
Posted July 2, 2009 © Eurasianet
http://www.eurasianet.org
|
The Central Eurasia Project aims, through its website,
meetings, papers, and grants, to foster a more informed
debate about the social, political and economic
developments of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
It is a program of the Open Society
Institute-New York. The Open Society Institute-New
York is a private operating and grantmaking foundation
that promotes the development of open societies around
the world by supporting educational, social, and legal
reform, and by encouraging alternative
approaches to complex and controversial issues.
The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily
represent the position of the Open Society Institute and
are the sole responsibility of the author or
authors.
|
|
Get RSS Feed
