Twenty-five diagnosed with AIDS in southern Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Lankaran, Jan.12 / Trend , P.Aliyeva /
Twenty-five individuals were diagnosed with AIDS in the Lankaran region in 2009.
There are 187 AIDS patients in the region, Lankaran Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology HIV/AIDS Laboratory Diagnostics head Ramiali Ibishov told Trend .
He said six individuals were diagnosed and registered in the last three months of 2009.
Twenty of the 25 individuals were drug addicts.
Ibishov said there are 350 AIDS patients in the southern region - 187 are registered in Lankaran, 78 in Astara, 66 in Masalli, 22 in Jalilabad, four in Lerik and three in Yardimli.