{"id":26951,"date":"2016-03-18T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=26951"},"modified":"2016-03-19T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T19:04:37","slug":"migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour migration leads to high HIV prevalence rates in Armenia."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Labor-migration.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In 2011-2015, 57% of the registered number of people living with HIV in Armenia have presumably been infected outside the country, particularly in Russia, and 13% of HIV-infected people are their partners. Thus, the migration factor is the main cause in 70%, specialists explain.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Shirak Region ranks first in the list of HIV\/AIDS prevalence (per 100\u00a0000 population), followed by Lori and Gegharkunik (70.8) regions, said\u00a0Vardan Arzakanyan, Epidemiologist at National Center for AIDS Prevention, at the Media Center discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may wonder why the rates are high in these particular regions. The reason for it is labour migration, especially to the Russian Federation where the prevalence rates are 4-4.5 times higher,\u201d said Vardan Arzakanyan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full English text is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media-center.us11.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=2155dfbc72a609bcb80cd03d3&amp;id=0076295ad2&amp;e=3e2400c64e\" target=\"_blank\">media-center.am<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">In 2011-2015, 57% of the registered number of people living with HIV in Armenia have presumably been infected outside the country, particularly in Russia, and 13% of HIV-infected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,99,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-145","category-99","category-migration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}