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Paper reports AIDS cases in Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 15 (Wire services) - More than 1,230 Iranians, mostly intravenous drug users, have been diagnosed as carriers of the HIV virus which causes AIDS, and 155 people have died of the disease, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The state-owned paper Iran quoted a member of the national council against AIDS as saying that drug users accounted for 829 of the 1,232 HIV-positive cases recorded in the country since 1985.
The unidentified official said 155 have died of the disease in Iran and 186 have developed full-blown acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In June, the Iranian authorities said 1,047 people were HIV-positive in Iran.
The first case of the disease was recorded in 1985, in a one-year-old baby who received a transfusion of imported blood.
The Iranian authorities have banned blood imports since then and launched a campaign to prevent the spread of the disease.
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