World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1 every year.
As the press service of the Health Ministry reported with reference to the Deputy Director of the Republican AIDS Center Gulifor Normuratova, as of January 1, 2022, 45,000 people in Uzbekistan are living with HIV infection.
According to her, many patients in Uzbekistan are treated with special antiretroviral therapy. In 74% of people who received such treatment, the viral load decreased several times.
In February this year, it was reported that 45,000 people in Uzbekistan were living with HIV infection. Of these, 55% are men and 45% are women. Of the total, 14% are children under the age of 18.
Most HIV-infected people live in Tashkent and the Tashkent region.
In November 2019, the former director of the Agency for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare under the Ministry of Health, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Bakhrom Almatov reported that more than 4,000 people are diagnosed with AIDS every year in Uzbekistan.
