Eight AIDS-infected people die in Azerbaijan’s Lankaran region last year

He said 25 HIV-infection cases have been identified in the region last year and a number of infected people reached 187.

There are totally 360 infected people in the southern part of the country, including Lankaran, Masalli, Jalilabad, Lerik, Astara and Yardimli regions.

The first infection case in the region was identified in Lankaran in 2000. 29 people have died since than.

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