Iran discloses number of HIV-infected citizens
TEHRAN, Iran (AP): Iran said Monday that the country has
registered more than 18,000 HIV-positive citizens and is worried
that number could rise in a rare government disclosure about the
AIDS causing virus.
Health Minister Kamran Bagheri
Lankarani said increasingly Iranians were transmitting HIV through
"illegal sexual relations," meaning adultery, prostitution and
homosexuality, which are all illegal in Iran. |
Tehran,
Dec 2, IRNA - Iran has so far spent some dlrs 20 million to control and prevent
AIDS epidemic countrywide, a senior anti-drug official on Tuesday.
Director General of Drugs Campaign Headquarters, Saeed Sefatian, told IRNA that
since five years ago, the headquarters has taken preventive steps to fight
spread of the HIV virus throughout the country.
He said that until that time the number of the AIDS affected patients was
increasing as the disease became epidemic among needle addicts.
Sefatian referred to the establishment of Drugs Information Centers (DIC) and
Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) centers as examples of activities made to
help cure the AIDS affected addicts by increasing the period of their treatment
from one month to a maximum of two years.
The official expressed hope that Iran would hold workshops for its neighboring
states by the end of the current Iranian year (to end on March 20, 2009) by
providing them with Tehran's experiences in the field of preventing AIDS.
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