Kabul, December 4 (IANS). Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health has recorded 200 new cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)/HIV among civilians this year.
According to Xinhua news agency, the government news agency Bakhtar quoted the ministry as saying that eight treatment centers and 61 diagnostic centers for HIV/AIDS are active in Afghanistan and health services are being provided to people suffering from HIV/AIDS throughout the country. Has been.
According to ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman Amarkhel, a total of 3,700 cases of HIV have been reported in Afghanistan since 1989.
Currently, 1,400 people infected with this virus are receiving treatment across the country.
Recent data from the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) revealed that around 39.9 million people worldwide were infected with HIV in the year 2023, while 6,30,000 people died due to AIDS-related diseases during the same period. Lost his life.
If we look at the World Health Organization’s figures for 2023, last year one percent of Afghanistan’s population was affected by HIV/AIDS. The ministry had reported that 3,492 individuals were assisted through the infectious control program.
Since 1998, every year December 1 is celebrated as World AIDS Day, the aim of which is to increase awareness among people about this serious disease.
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is spread from one person to another. Symptoms of this disease appear in three stages. Initially the patient experiences superficial infection. After this the disease progresses, due to which the patient often has to face weakness and severe swelling.
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