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AIDS and Armenians: Misconceptions and Progress

AIDS and Armenians: Misconceptions and Progress

A new report released on the eve of World AIDS Day by the United Nations and World Health Organization estimates that 33.4 million people are living with HIV worldwide. While new generations of Armenians have a firmer grasp on world issues and social change, this old world culture still struggles to accept and prevent what [...]

HIV Cases on the Rise in Armenia

HIV Cases on the Rise in Armenia

On the eve of Dec. 1, 2008, World AIDS Day, an estimated 118 people in Armenia have been diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS in 2008, raising the total number of HIV cases to 656 since 1988, according to Samvel Grigorian, head of the Armenian Health Ministry’s Center for the Prevention of Aids [...]