Iran: More than 18,000 HIV-positive citizens

“What we are worried about is a third wave of the AIDS epidemic through sexual contact given that a majority of our population are young people,” Lankarani said on state television Monday to mark World AIDS Day. 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.

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