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Official HIV Cases in Kazakstan Double in a Year

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

November 2, 2001

The official number of people infected with HIV in Kazakstan has nearly doubled this year, the country's chief doctor announced Wednesday. Although the official count this year is 2,256, he estimated that the actual figure is ten times higher. Anatoly Belonog told a news conference in the capital of Astana that most people in this Central Asian nation do not get tested. And awareness of prevention and treatment measures remains minimal. However, infection rates in the Temirtau region dropped 50 percent this year, Belonog said, due primarily to prevention efforts, free drug counseling and the distribution of free condoms and disposable syringes.


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10.31.01

  
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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
 
 

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