AIDS threats Iran

Iranian teenagers and youth aged between 15 and 22 are subjected to serious risk of contracting AIDS, said a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Obstetrics of Tehran University Naidu Noktadan, the Iranian News Agency FARS reported on Thursday.

She stressed that there is necessity to hold training to struggle methods for the prophylaxis in schools and universities. The third wave of contracting this disease has begun in Iran," said Noktadan at a workshop "Children and AIDS". "Unless this process is controlled and suppressed in time, this "wave" will turn into tsunami."

According to official statistics, there are 23,125 AIDS's infectors in the country. f you want to know exact number of infectors, multiply this figure by four," Noktadan noted. he workshop entitled "Children and AIDS" will continue its work on Thursday.


/Trend/