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Shafaq News/ Iraq records less than five AIDS infections per 100,000 people, which are small numbers, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, but the country is still among the areas of low endemicity of immunodeficiency disease, as confirmed by the World Health Organization.
AIDS is considered a dangerous disease that is widespread throughout the world, but to date no effective treatment has been found to stop the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the disease.
Many Iraqi governorates, including the Kurdistan Region, announce from time to time the recording of many AIDS infections, the latest of which was announced by Babel Health, on Friday, April 26, recording 27 cases of the disease since the beginning of 2024, while Najaf Health confirms that the virus is not free of it. Any Iraqi governorate.
The onset of the disease
According to Iraqi health authorities, AIDS appeared for the first time in the country in 1986 as a result of a number of citizens suffering from hereditary hemorrhage receiving Factor VIII imported from France. The imported meal was contaminated with this virus and 286 people were infected at that time.
The talk here is about the Iraqi Ministry of Health’s contract in the 1980s with the French company “Mario” to supply the two drugs, Factor 8 and Factor 9, which work to clot the blood of hemophilia patients.
In 1986, a group of hemophilia patients entered Baghdad hospitals to receive French treatment that the Ministry of Health had imported from Mario, a company that produces these serums. However, their infections quickly turned into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and they began to die one after another.
It later became clear that the shipment sent by the French company was carrying blood contaminated with the AIDS virus. In the same year, Iraq recorded its first infection with this disease, at a time when it did not have any special program for treating this disease, so the infection spread among the patients to whom the contaminated blood was transferred.
The percentage of infections in all Iraqi governorates did not exceed 124 cases 5 years ago, according to official statistics, and these infections were under control, but the decline in health conditions throughout the country contributed to a rapid increase in infections to a large extent.
Health is reassuring
For his part, the spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, confirms that “Iraq records less than five AIDS infections per 100,000, which are small numbers, but this does not mean that we are underestimating the danger of the virus. Rather, we are keen to deal with every infected case seriously to find out the cause.” Injury and its treatment.
Al-Badr explains during his talk to Shafaq News Agency, “What is being reported about more than two thousand infections recorded this year is not true. Rather, it is a total of 40 years, and the 2024 statistics will be announced at the beginning of next year, 2025.”
Al-Badr reassured, “The numbers recorded in Iraq are the lowest in the world and the region, but clarifying the numbers does not mean underestimating the recorded infections, but it is compared to other countries, as the World Health Organization confirmed that Iraq was and still is among the areas of low endemicity of immunodeficiency disease.”
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health calls on infected people who know they have the disease “not to be afraid and to visit specialized government centers for the purpose of treating them and continuing life normally. There is no quarantine for them or any fear from a security standpoint, as the matter is normal, and those infected with AIDS must cooperate with health authorities to treat them and protect their partners.” From infection."
"No one admits"
Yesterday, Friday, the Babylon Health Department announced that the number of recorded cases of AIDS has been 27 since the beginning of 2024, while the department’s media director, Louay Abdel Amir, revealed that “most of these infections came - according to the claims of the infected people - as a result of travel and visits to cosmetic and dental centers in Lebanon and elsewhere, and it may also be the result of sexual intercourse, but no one admits it.”
Abdul Amir added while speaking to Shafaq News Agency, “The situation is not an epidemic, and there are no serious or increasing cases, and treatments are available at Imam Sadiq Teaching Hospital.”
“No province is without it.”
In turn, the media official in the Najaf Health Department, Maher Al-Aboudi, points out that “no governorate is free of AIDS, but I cannot give official statistics unless I confirm the number of infected people registered in the Najaf health departments.”
Al-Aboudi added in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, “As for what was raised 3 years ago about the transmission of this virus through blood bags, the disease, from a scientific and physiological standpoint, is not transmitted in this way, and no case of infection has been recorded in this regard.”
He continues, "3 years ago there was a woman suffering from thalassemia and she contracted AIDS after receiving blood in Turkey, where it turned out that her donor was infected with AIDS and the infection came from him. As for the issue of blood bags, this does not exist at all in the cases recorded in the province."
Al-Aboudi explains, “In Najaf Governorate, a center for treating immunodeficiency was opened about 6 months ago at Al-Amal Hospital. It contains a specialist doctor, a private laboratory, and a dental clinic to treat patients infected with AIDS.”
AIDS is killing the youth of Dhi Qar
An informed medical source in Dhi Qar Governorate revealed on January 26, 2024, that “AIDS cases documented in the records of the Dhi Qar Health Department amounted to 200 cases, the majority of which were in people under the age of 45, that is, within the youth category,” pointing out that “this number is multiplied by 10.” For people who are not officially registered, this means that there are 2,000 people infected with AIDS walking around the governorate without any treatment.”
The source, who requested that his name not be mentioned, said in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, “The majority of the infections were of people who had visited the Republic of Azerbaijan previously, as this country is considered a source of the disease,” explaining that “Dhi Qar had only two officially recorded infections 15 years ago.” However, openness to other countries and travel has led to this terrifying increase in the number of people infected with this dangerous disease.”
AIDS in the Kurdistan Region
As for Kurdistan, the Ministry of Health in the Regional Government announced, at the beginning of last December, the recording of 72 new cases of AIDS, most of them foreigners, during the year 2023.
The Ministry said in a statement published on the occasion of World AIDS Day and received by Shafaq News Agency: “The relevant authorities in the region, within the control program, for the year 2023, conducted 598,000 HIV tests, especially for foreigners before granting them residency, before blood donation, marriage, and workers in tourist places, in addition to detainees, prisoners, and those infected with thalassemia and hepatitis.”
The statement added, "The Ministry recorded 72 new cases of AIDS during the past year, with the largest number of them being foreign citizens," noting that "measures will be taken against them and to return them to their countries."
Virus prevention
To prevent this virus, the specialist in infectious and epidemiological diseases, Dr. Haider Ali Hantoush, says, “AIDS is transmitted from the mother to the newborn through the placenta in the uterus during pregnancy and this is called (vertical transmission). It may be transmitted through sexual contact, or from blood, whether through Surgical interventions or when receiving blood from an injured person, in addition to tattoo shops.”
Hantoush explained during his talk to Shafaq News Agency, “The age most at risk for contracting AIDS is between 25 and 40 years old, and the virus is characterized by its very long incubation period of up to 10 years. The person does not initially know that he is infected until his immune system is weakened, as the virus It targets the body's immune system (defense cells), and then the person is at risk of death when infected with any infection and disease, even influenza may be fatal to him.”
In 2015, the United Nations announced for the first time that its goal was to end the threat posed by AIDS to public health by 2030.
The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is 39 million worldwide. Of these, 20.8 million are in East and Southern Africa, and 6.5 million are in the Asia and Pacific regions. But out of these 39 million, 9.2 million cannot obtain the necessary treatments, even though their effectiveness has been proven.
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AIDS is considered a dangerous disease that is widespread throughout the world, but to date no effective treatment has been found to stop the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the disease.
Many Iraqi governorates, including the Kurdistan Region, announce from time to time the recording of many AIDS infections, the latest of which was announced by Babel Health, on Friday, April 26, recording 27 cases of the disease since the beginning of 2024, while Najaf Health confirms that the virus is not free of it. Any Iraqi governorate.
The onset of the disease
According to Iraqi health authorities, AIDS appeared for the first time in the country in 1986 as a result of a number of citizens suffering from hereditary hemorrhage receiving Factor VIII imported from France. The imported meal was contaminated with this virus and 286 people were infected at that time.
The talk here is about the Iraqi Ministry of Health’s contract in the 1980s with the French company “Mario” to supply the two drugs, Factor 8 and Factor 9, which work to clot the blood of hemophilia patients.
In 1986, a group of hemophilia patients entered Baghdad hospitals to receive French treatment that the Ministry of Health had imported from Mario, a company that produces these serums. However, their infections quickly turned into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and they began to die one after another.
It later became clear that the shipment sent by the French company was carrying blood contaminated with the AIDS virus. In the same year, Iraq recorded its first infection with this disease, at a time when it did not have any special program for treating this disease, so the infection spread among the patients to whom the contaminated blood was transferred.
The percentage of infections in all Iraqi governorates did not exceed 124 cases 5 years ago, according to official statistics, and these infections were under control, but the decline in health conditions throughout the country contributed to a rapid increase in infections to a large extent.
Health is reassuring
For his part, the spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, confirms that “Iraq records less than five AIDS infections per 100,000, which are small numbers, but this does not mean that we are underestimating the danger of the virus. Rather, we are keen to deal with every infected case seriously to find out the cause.” Injury and its treatment.
Al-Badr explains during his talk to Shafaq News Agency, “What is being reported about more than two thousand infections recorded this year is not true. Rather, it is a total of 40 years, and the 2024 statistics will be announced at the beginning of next year, 2025.”
Al-Badr reassured, “The numbers recorded in Iraq are the lowest in the world and the region, but clarifying the numbers does not mean underestimating the recorded infections, but it is compared to other countries, as the World Health Organization confirmed that Iraq was and still is among the areas of low endemicity of immunodeficiency disease.”
The spokesman for the Ministry of Health calls on infected people who know they have the disease “not to be afraid and to visit specialized government centers for the purpose of treating them and continuing life normally. There is no quarantine for them or any fear from a security standpoint, as the matter is normal, and those infected with AIDS must cooperate with health authorities to treat them and protect their partners.” From infection."
"No one admits"
Yesterday, Friday, the Babylon Health Department announced that the number of recorded cases of AIDS has been 27 since the beginning of 2024, while the department’s media director, Louay Abdel Amir, revealed that “most of these infections came - according to the claims of the infected people - as a result of travel and visits to cosmetic and dental centers in Lebanon and elsewhere, and it may also be the result of sexual intercourse, but no one admits it.”
Abdul Amir added while speaking to Shafaq News Agency, “The situation is not an epidemic, and there are no serious or increasing cases, and treatments are available at Imam Sadiq Teaching Hospital.”
“No province is without it.”
In turn, the media official in the Najaf Health Department, Maher Al-Aboudi, points out that “no governorate is free of AIDS, but I cannot give official statistics unless I confirm the number of infected people registered in the Najaf health departments.”
Al-Aboudi added in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, “As for what was raised 3 years ago about the transmission of this virus through blood bags, the disease, from a scientific and physiological standpoint, is not transmitted in this way, and no case of infection has been recorded in this regard.”
He continues, "3 years ago there was a woman suffering from thalassemia and she contracted AIDS after receiving blood in Turkey, where it turned out that her donor was infected with AIDS and the infection came from him. As for the issue of blood bags, this does not exist at all in the cases recorded in the province."
Al-Aboudi explains, “In Najaf Governorate, a center for treating immunodeficiency was opened about 6 months ago at Al-Amal Hospital. It contains a specialist doctor, a private laboratory, and a dental clinic to treat patients infected with AIDS.”
AIDS is killing the youth of Dhi Qar
An informed medical source in Dhi Qar Governorate revealed on January 26, 2024, that “AIDS cases documented in the records of the Dhi Qar Health Department amounted to 200 cases, the majority of which were in people under the age of 45, that is, within the youth category,” pointing out that “this number is multiplied by 10.” For people who are not officially registered, this means that there are 2,000 people infected with AIDS walking around the governorate without any treatment.”
The source, who requested that his name not be mentioned, said in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, “The majority of the infections were of people who had visited the Republic of Azerbaijan previously, as this country is considered a source of the disease,” explaining that “Dhi Qar had only two officially recorded infections 15 years ago.” However, openness to other countries and travel has led to this terrifying increase in the number of people infected with this dangerous disease.”
AIDS in the Kurdistan Region
As for Kurdistan, the Ministry of Health in the Regional Government announced, at the beginning of last December, the recording of 72 new cases of AIDS, most of them foreigners, during the year 2023.
The Ministry said in a statement published on the occasion of World AIDS Day and received by Shafaq News Agency: “The relevant authorities in the region, within the control program, for the year 2023, conducted 598,000 HIV tests, especially for foreigners before granting them residency, before blood donation, marriage, and workers in tourist places, in addition to detainees, prisoners, and those infected with thalassemia and hepatitis.”
The statement added, "The Ministry recorded 72 new cases of AIDS during the past year, with the largest number of them being foreign citizens," noting that "measures will be taken against them and to return them to their countries."
Virus prevention
To prevent this virus, the specialist in infectious and epidemiological diseases, Dr. Haider Ali Hantoush, says, “AIDS is transmitted from the mother to the newborn through the placenta in the uterus during pregnancy and this is called (vertical transmission). It may be transmitted through sexual contact, or from blood, whether through Surgical interventions or when receiving blood from an injured person, in addition to tattoo shops.”
Hantoush explained during his talk to Shafaq News Agency, “The age most at risk for contracting AIDS is between 25 and 40 years old, and the virus is characterized by its very long incubation period of up to 10 years. The person does not initially know that he is infected until his immune system is weakened, as the virus It targets the body's immune system (defense cells), and then the person is at risk of death when infected with any infection and disease, even influenza may be fatal to him.”
In 2015, the United Nations announced for the first time that its goal was to end the threat posed by AIDS to public health by 2030.
The number of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is 39 million worldwide. Of these, 20.8 million are in East and Southern Africa, and 6.5 million are in the Asia and Pacific regions. But out of these 39 million, 9.2 million cannot obtain the necessary treatments, even though their effectiveness has been proven.
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