IRAN: Iran Says HIV Cases Four Times Higher than Registered

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IRAN: Iran Says HIV Cases Four Times Higher than Registered

Agence France Presse (12.01.08) - Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Iran's deputy health minister on World AIDS Day offered a markedly higher estimate of the number of Iranians living with HIV. "We estimate there are 80,000 people affected by the AIDS virus or four times higher than the number of cases which are officially registered," said Hassan Emami Razavi. The official case count, 18,320, itself reflects a 30 percent increase above the 2007 figure. Government figures indicate the main routes of transmission are contaminated blood, intravenous drug use, and sexual relations. Health Minister Kamran Bagheri Lankaarani warned of a new epidemic of sexually transmitted HIV among Iran's large population of young people, even though sex outside marriage is outlawed.
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