Winners of the contest of journalistic works dedicated to HIV/ AIDS topic

Today award ceremony of the contest of journalistic works dedicated to HIV/AIDS took place in Yerevan. The contest was organized by “Real world, real people” NGO and Union of people with HIV/AIDS living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, supported by the UN HIV/AIDS joint program.

Expert jury chose 3 works from the submitted ones and their authors got prizes.

Womennet.am congratulates the winners wishing them new achievements and success.

P.S. According to the official statistics, from 1988 to December 31^st of 2014 1953 HIV cases have been registered among RA citizens. Majority of HIV patients are male – 69%, while female – 31%, children – 2%. 53% of the infected people were in 25-39 age groups.

The highest number of HIV infection cases was registered among residents of Yerevan – 667, which constitute 34,2% of all cases.

Shirak regions is in the second place – 11,4%.

HIV/AIDS situation assessment has shown that estimated number of people living with HIV infection in Armenia is 4000.