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Damascus-Sana
The director of the national AIDS program at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jamal Khamis, has launched a survey of 15,000 people nationwide to investigate any infection of the disease in order to update the data. program and to provide access to a precise proportion of the spread of AIDS in Syria.
Dr. Khamis told Sana at a workshop organized by the Ministry of Health that the random survey would be concentrated in the affected areas, which would have restored security and stability in various provinces.
According to figures from the Ministry of Health, AIDS cases recorded in Syria since 1987 until the end of 2017 reached 902 cases, including 332 non-Syrians and 570 Syrians, of whom 227 died .
Khamis pointed out that the ministry continues to provide free treatment to people living with AIDS, as well as diagnostic, follow-up and counseling services in five counseling centers and seven laboratories spread across several provinces, highlighting the existence a plan for the rehabilitation of laboratories and centers affected by terrorist attacks.
According to the director of the program, the practice of sexual misconduct is the main cause of infection in Syria and 69%, while no case of blood transfusion since 1992 as a result of the disease. application of the test protocol of all samples taken from the blood bank, indicating a reduction of about 2% in the rate of transmission of AIDS from pregnant women to his son. After setting up a treatment protocol from the fourth month until birth.
The Ministry of Health offers voluntary testing to all who wish and free treatment for people with the disease since 2007.
Dina Salama
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