BBC News - Sunday, 29 July, 2001
In an interview with the Iranian news agency IRNA, a senior official in the health department of the central Iranian city of Isfahan, Masood Zandiyeh, said a high-profile anti-Aids campaign was needed to fight what he described as a dramatic rise of the disease in Iran.
Mr Zandiyeh said Iran had nearly 3,000 people, mostly men, infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids. He said most infections were passed by drug injections. Officials also blame polygamy for the rise of Aids in Iran.
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