WashingtonTV: According to official figures from Iran’s Health Ministry, at least 3,409 people have died in the country from AIDS, the Iran Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported on Thursday.The report said that an additional 2,097 people have been diagnosed as having AIDS, and a total of 20,130 people had tested positive for HIV. It did not specify whether that figure included those who had gone on to develop AIDS.
Men accounted for 93 percent of recorded HIV/AIDS infections, ILNA said.
Health experts believe that the actual of AIDS patients in Iran is much higher.
The report said that intravenous drug use is the most common way HIV is transmitted in Iran [69.8 percent], while sexual relations counted for 8.5 percent of transmissions.
World-renowned Iranian physicians, Kamiar and Arash Alaei, leaders in the field of HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment, have been detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison since June 2008.
The two brothers are being held on charges related to endangering national security.
The doctors founded Iran’s non-governmental Pars Institute and formed the “triangular” clinical plan, in which treatment is offered for sexually-transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, and drug addiction.
The AIDS virus infects 33 million people around the world, and around a million in the United States, according to Reuters.
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