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"Clean World" Social Union: HIV/AIDS is supposed to spread in Azerbaijan

26 January 2007 [01:22] - TODAY.AZ
Social Union for Women Problems "Clean World" made a statement on increase of HIV/AIDS in Azerbaijan.

The statement says that returning of Azerbaijani migrants from Russia may cause increase of the virus, APA reports.

"orld Health Organization states that 5 million of Russian population is infected with HIV/AIDS. According to the information of the World Bank this infection will cause the loss of GDP by 4.15% in 2010 and by 10.5% in 2020 in Russian economy. Besides, our compatriots live not only in Russia, but also in other foreign countries and often visit Azerbaijan. Therefore, legislative act should be instituted for examining both local and foreign citizens arriving in the country.

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